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Civic Choice
Critical Elections
Economic Crisis
economic crisis impact
electoral behaviour
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European Elections
European Parliament
European Parliament Election
European Union
Euroscepticism
government performance analysis
Greek Party System
Incumbent Punishment
MPT
Multinomial Logistic Model
Multinomial Logistic Regressions
National Electoral Cycle
Olive Tree
Online Appendix
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
party system change
political polarisation
Politics
Previous EP Election
Previous European Elections
Protest Vote
Radical Left Party
Renzi's Leadership
Renzi’s Leadership
SE Coef
Second-Order Election Model
Sincere Voting
SOE
SOE Model
South European Society and Politics
Southern Europe
southern Europe electoral trends
Subjective Social Class
Van Der Eijk
Vice Versa
Vote Switching

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138393103
  • Weight: 330g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Jan 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Southern Europe has been the EU region most exposed to the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis with consequences for national party systems and political stability. The 2014 European Parliament elections took place at a crucial time for Europe and Southern European societies more generally. This book analyses the Euroelections in Southern Europe, asking whether these followed the usual pattern of low-stimulus contests or whether the crisis context raised the bar. Country chapters on Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta investigate the background of the elections, the electoral campaign and the rise of Euroscepticism. The linkage between governments’ economic performance, the Europhile or Eurosceptic stances of political parties, and their electoral performance are at the core of the analysis in each chapter. The findings reveal that the political and electoral consequences of the economic crisis have not fundamentally challenged the second-order character of the 2014 European Parliament elections in Southern Europe. However, electoral behaviour exhibits some indications of a more critical contest in which the EU divide becomes more significant and polarising in determining voting choices. This book was previously published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.
About
Hermann Schmitt, professor of political science, holds a Chair in Electoral Politics at the University of Manchester and is a research fellow of the MZES and Professor at the University of Mannheim. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan (1996-7), Science Po Paris (2001-2), the Australian National University (2003), the IAS in Vienna (2005), and the UAM in Madrid (2008). He received his doctorate from the University of Duisburg, and holds a venia legendi from both the Free University of Berlin and the University of Mannheim. He has been participating in a number of comparative projects; perhaps most important is his involvement, from 1979 on, in the series of European Election Studies. He received substantial research grants from European, German and British institutions. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on electoral behaviour in multilevel-systems and on political representation in the European Union. Eftichia Teperoglou is a Lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CIES-IUL). Her main research interests are in the fields of political and electoral behaviour with a focus on European elections, comparative politics and public opinion. She is one of the national directors for the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS), Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and European Election Study (EES) in Greece and one of the founders of the Hellenic National Election Study (ELNES).She has published her work in international journals and in edited volumes. She is the author of the book (in Greek) titled ‘The other "national" elections. Analyzing the European Elections in Greece 1981-2014’.