Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility. In
these environments, political factions fail to establish long-term connections with the …

The global economic crisis that originated in 2008 in the US financial sector spread quickly
across the Atlantic bringing a number of European economies to the brink of collapse. The …

Economic voting theory assumes that on an individual level voters react to economic
indicators to hold incumbents responsible for the performance of the economy. On an …

Where some authors saw a limited impact of Europeanisation on national party politics,
others proposed that in addition to the pre-existing economic left-right dimension a separate …

Whereas economic perceptions influence the national vote in Western European countries,
globalization, or international openness, conditions the influence of economic perceptions …

The 2011 legislative elections in Portugal took place under one of the most acute economic
crises ever faced by the country in four decades of democracy. To be sure, all general …

The literature on economic voting has grown large, reaching, by our rough estimate, 600
published pieces. The economy, we have learned, plays an important role, in election after …

Having joined the Eurozone in 2001, Greece experienced a short period of economic
euphoria before confronting a major financial crisis some nine years later. In the period …

In 2004 few could imagine Greece on the brink of state bankruptcy. Greece featured in the
global news as the proudly successful host of the Olympic Games, it had successfully joined …

The most defining feature of elections in Portugal from a comparative perspective is
probably the very high degree of homogeneity found in parties' vote shares across districts …