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Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal

Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis

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Editors:
  1. António Costa Pinto

    1. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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  2. Conceição Pequito Teixeira

    1. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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  • Considers the causes and conditions that explain the development of the modern Portuguese political system

  • Analyses the basic characteristics of Portugal's current democracy

  • Offers an invaluable context to the comparative study of populist challenges in European democracies

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Portugal Before and After the “Great Recession”: A Resilient Democracy?

    • António Costa Pinto, Conceição Pequito Teixeira
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Political Economy of Portuguese Crisis Years: The Road Not Taken

    • Carla Guapo Costa
    Pages 13-33

  4. The President of the Republic and the Management of the Eurocrisis

    • Rui Graça Feijó
    Pages 35-54

  5. Electoral Systems and Political Reforms: Portugal in Comparative Perspective

    • André Freire
    Pages 55-76

  6. The Portuguese Party System: Evolution in Continuity?

    • Carlos Jalali
    Pages 77-99

  7. The Centrality of the Portuguese Parliament: Reform, Troika and “Contraption”

    • António José Seguro
    Pages 101-119

  8. The Portuguese Constitutional Court and Its Austerity Case Law

    • Teresa Violante
    Pages 121-143

  9. New Challenges, Old Parties: Party Change in Portugal After the European Crisis

    • Marco Lisi
    Pages 145-165

  10. Trade Union Representation and Industrial Relations in Portugal Before, During and Following the Economic and Financial Crises

    • Alan Stoleroff
    Pages 167-193

  11. Portugal and Spain in the International Protest Cycles: From Global Justice Movement to Anti-austerity Protests

    • Cristina Nunes
    Pages 195-213

  12. Political Discontentment in Portugal Post-Troika: Risks and Opportunities

    • Conceição Pequito Teixeira, Paulo de Almeida Pereira, Ana Maria Belchior
    Pages 215-246

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 247-253
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This book examines how patterns of political representation, party system, and political culture have changed in Southern Europe following the “Great Recession” of 2008. It draws on the experience of Portugal to argue that austerity measures have significantly deepened the legitimacy crisis of democratic institutions, but the resilience of party system is remarkable in comparison. The case of Portugal present some interesting differences from other southern European democracies, since on one hand it suffered a deep economic crisis and the consequent bailout from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union, but on the other hand the party system remained stable. Nevertheless the impact of the crisis did reinforce a centre-periphery cleavage within the European Union, and especially in the Eurozone, Portugal is a central element of this new cleavage notoriously aggravated by Brexit.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    António Costa Pinto, Conceição Pequito Teixeira

About the editors

António Costa Pinto is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has published on authoritarianism, political elites, democratization and transitional justice. He co-edited several volumes for Palgrave, namely, Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe (2014) (with A. Kallis) and Technocratic Ministers and Political Leadership in European Democracies (2018) (with M. Cotta and P. Tavares de Almeida).

Conceição Pequito Teixeira is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests currently focus is on comparative politics, parties and systems of political parties, political representation and electoral systems, political institutions and political attitudes and behaviour. Her most recent publications are Social Capital, Social Economy and Quality of Democracy in Portugal (2015) and contributions to the journals South European Society and Politics and Party Politics.


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