The Elections of the Great Recession in Portugal: Performance Voting under a Blurred Responsibility for the Economy

Magalhães, Pedro C.

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“…In Portugal, the PS probably thought the best strategy was to use the image of the party and of its leader instead of granting its local candidates more freedom and space, even if the incumbent prime minister and the party as a whole were being blamed for the economic situation and, therefore, a resounding electoral defeat was expected (Magalhães 2014). In Greece, financial constraints and the grand coalition between PASOK and ND may have blurred the differences in campaign strategies and no clear trend for the incumbent emerged either before or after the bailout.…”

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“…In particular, recent studies have examined the effects of the economic crisis on electoral behaviour (Kosmidis 2014;Magalhães 2014), party performance (Bosco & Verney 2012) and political attitudes (Bartels & Bermeo 2014). Yet this strand of research has mainly examined political changes from the citizens' point of view, while party strategies have largely been neglected.…”

Section: The External Intervention Of the So-called Troika (Of The Inmentioning

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“…The economic crisis may have distinct effects on party and candidate strategies depending on their institutional position. We know that in 'hard-times elections' incumbents compete with the goal of avoiding being blamed for the difficult situation (Magalhães 2014). In addition, Vavreck (2009) has noticed that candidate strategy depends on the context, especially in terms of economic performance.…”

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

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Santana-Pereira

2014

South European Society and Politics

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

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“…As autárquicas de 2013 foram as primeiras eleições realizadas durante o programa de ajuda a que o país tem estado sujeito desde 2011 (Fernandes, 2011;Magalhães, 2014), e por isso foram encaradas pela opinião pública como a primeira grande oportunidade para os portugueses expressarem o seu descontentamento com as políticas em curso e penalizarem a coligação governamental PSD/CDS (Freire, Tsatsanis e Lima, 2015). 1 As eleições foram por isso excecionalmente competitivas e os resultados foram extensamente debatidos do ponto de vista do seu significado político.…”

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Eleições autárquicas 2.0: análise das estratégias de comunicação online de candidatos, partidos e movimentos independentes

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2016

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Resumo As redes sociais são uma ferramenta indispensável na comunicação política em período de campanha eleitoral. Este artigo pretende contribuir para o debate teórico sobre se as campanhas online contribuem para uma mudança de paradigma comunicacional entre candidatos e eleitores ou, ao invés, reproduzem os estilos e formatos preconizados pelos mass media. O estudo parte da análise de conteúdo das páginas de Facebook de partidos políticos e movimentos independentes relativas às eleições autárquicas de setembro de 2013. Após a análise descritiva é apresentado um modelo explicativo exploratório sobre as variações na interatividade entre páginas.Palavras-chave redes sociais, eleições, comunicação política, campanha eleitoral. AbstractThe social networks are an indispensable tool for political communication during election campaigns. This article seeks to contribute to the theoretical on whether online campaigns are helping change the paradigm for communication between candidates and voters, or whether on the contrary they are reproducing the styles and formats put forward by the mass media. The study begins by analysing the content of the Facebook pages of political parties and independent movements regarding the September 2013 local elections. The authors then present an exploratory model that seeks to explain the variations in interactivity from one page to another.

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“…While the government announced the decision to reject additional aids, the electoral competition focused on the responsibility of the two main parties to cause the external intervention and the austerity policies that followed the bailout (see Magalhães, 2014). The PS' strategy aimed to make the European elections a referendum against the government, blaming the right coalition to aggravate the economic and social situation with its neoliberal orthodoxy.…”

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European Parliament Elections 2014

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CISE -Centro Italiano Studi ElettoraliDirected by Roberto D'Alimonte, the CISE -Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali (Italian Centre for Electoral Studies) is an inter-university research center established jointly by the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome and the University of Florence. Its activity focuses on the study of elections and their institutional framework. The CISE carries out a range of research activities with different points of view on the electoral process: from the analysis of individual voting behavior (investigated through an independent, regular series of CATI surveys) to analyses of election results based on aggregate data (also including the study of vote shifts and of electoral geography), to research on electoral systems and their related legislation. The CISE research activity is also carried out through partnerships with other Italian and international scholars, as well as with national and international research centers and research programmes. The activities of the CISE, systematically documented on the website at http://cise.luiss.it/, are supported by Eni. The European Parliament Elections of 2014Edited by Lorenzo De Sio Vincenzo Emanuele Nicola Maggini Lorenzo De Sio, Vincenzo Emanuele and Nicola MagginiThis book is dedicated to the European Parliament (EP) elections of 22-25 May 2014. Elections that were expected to be the first truly European elections, rather than a collection of second-order elections, focused on national issues as had happened in all previous elections Hix and Marsh, 2011).There were good reasons for such expectations. After 2008, the financial and sovereign debt crisis has impacted Europe, with important, and sometimes dramatic, consequences in economic, social, and political terms. Indeed, the crisis did not have an immediate impact, in terms of economic policies that would affect the everyday life of ordinary people. As a result, the 2009 EP elections-held almost nine months after the Lehman Brothers default-did not show particularly clear effects of the crisis (De Sio and Legnante, 2010). But in subsequent years, the reaction to the crisis has seen the emergence of the European Union, its institutions, and other international institutions as key players in terms of economic policy of the Euro member states. Several of the states that were most impacted by the sovereign debt crisis had to negotiate bailout deals with the "Troika" committee (European Commission, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund) that strongly limited, if not temporarily cancelled, their economic policy sovereignty. Also, most other eurozone countries had to take economic measures with a strong impact on the everyday life of ordinary people.It is in this context that according to many observers, the European Parliament elections of 2014 would become much more relevant than in the past-a first, key test to assess the response of European citizens to the austerity policies decided in Brussels. With the expected consequence of citizens becoming aware that what is decided...

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The Elections of the Great Recession in Portugal: Performance Voting under a Blurred Responsibility for the Economy

Cited by 74 publications

References 24 publications

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

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

Eleições autárquicas 2.0: análise das estratégias de comunicação online de candidatos, partidos e movimentos independentes

European Parliament Elections 2014

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