After the Bailout: Responsibility, Policy, and Valence in the Portuguese Legislative Election of June 2011

Electoral Epidemic: The Political Cost of Economic Crisis in Southern Europe, 2010–11

“…In Portugal, where the legislative elections followed shortly after the EU/IMF bailout, the incumbent socialists lost 8.5 per cent of the total vote, reduced to 28.1 per cent from the 36.6 per cent they had polled just 21 months earlier. As in Spain, this election left the socialists' support limited to significantly less than one-third of the electorate (Magalhães 2012).…”

From Electoral Epidemic to Government Epidemic: The Next Level of the Crisis in Southern Europe

“…Rather, it aspires to offer a comparative overview of the new electoral landscape that has emerged in Greece, Portugal and Spain. To do so, it is necessary also to take into account the four other national parliamentary elections held during the crisis period (Spain andPortugal in 2011, Greece in May andJune 2012). Doing so will help us to contextualise the most recent electoral wave in the sequence of crisis elections.…”

The 2014 European Parliament Elections in Southern Europe: Second-Order or Critical Elections?

“…However, the political consequences of the economic crisis were far from uniform across the countries of our study. The Portuguese 'post-bailout election' of June 2011 has not significantly changed the party system relative to the 2009 election (Magalhães 2012). In Spain, party system fragmentation remained largely unchanged after the national election of November 2011, even though the incumbent PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español; Spanish Socialist Worker's Party) suffered massive losses.…”