Political Representation in Bailed-out Southern Europe: Greece and Portugal Compared

Campaign Individualisation before and after the Bailout: A Comparison between Greece and Portugal

“…Yet this research has neglected the role other contextual factors may play on campaign characteristics. As highlighted in the introduction to this special issue, the financial crisis has caused important changes in terms of attitudes towards representatives, party mobilisation and electoral alignments (Freire et al 2014). As a consequence, the Eurozone crisis may also affect campaign strategies and the way election campaigns are conducted.…”

Ideology as blocked mourning: Greek national identity in times of economic crisis and austerity

“…31 And comparisons with Portugal have shown that dissatisfaction expressed in that country was locatable almost exclusively on the left-right economic axis, and mostly projected towards the EU, while in Greece it was also expressed on a left-right cultural axis and directed towards the national political system. 32 Turning again more directly to the case of the Greek economic crisis, the role of the moderate centre in propagating the rhetoric and narrative cannot be overstated. From George Papandreou's 'road back to Ithaca' speech of 2010, through the speeches of Lucas Papademos's tenure, to even sharper expressions in the political discourse of Antonis Samaras, all three pro-memorandum governments of the period used this patriotic frame forcefully to inflect the austerity response to the crisis.…”

Administrative Reforms and the Eurozone Crisis: A Comparative Study of Greece and Portugal

“…Critical variables were the domestic politics and the dynamics of political representation (Freire et al, 2014;Kovras & Loizides 2014;Afonso, Zartaloudis & Papadopoulos, 2015). While governments faced strong resistance against the austerity packages, in Portugal the political conditions during the implementation phase were more favourable than those in Greece.…”