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Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal: Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis

Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal: Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis

by António Costa Pinto (Editor), António Costa Pinto (Editor), Conceição Pequito Teixeira (Editor)

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Synopsis

This book examines how patterns of political representation, party system, and political culture have changed in Southern Europe following the Great Recession of 2008. It draws on the experience of Portugal to argue that austerity measures have significantly deepened the legitimacy crisis of democratic institutions, but the resilience of party system is remarkable in comparison. The case of Portugal present some interesting differences from other southern European democracies, since on one hand it suffered a deep economic crisis and the consequent bailout from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union, but on the other hand the party system remained stable. Nevertheless the impact of the crisis did reinforce a centre-periphery cleavage within the European Union, and especially in the Eurozone, Portugal is a central element of this new cleavage notoriously aggravated by Brexit.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 268
 Edition: 1st ed. 2019
 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 04 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 331998151X
ISBN 13: 9783319981512

Author Bio

Antonio Costa Pinto is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has published on authoritarianism, political elites, democratization and transitional justice. He co-edited several volumes for Palgrave, namely, Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe (2014) (with A. Kallis) and Technocratic Ministers and Political Leadership in European Democracies (2018) (with M. Cotta and P. Tavares de Almeida).

Conceicao Pequito Teixeira is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests currently focus is on comparative politics, parties and systems of political parties, political representation and electoral systems, political institutions and political attitudes and behaviour. Her most recent publications are Social Capital, Social Economy and Quality of Democracy in Portugal (2015) and contributions to the journals South European Society and Politics and Party Politics.