Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Costa Pinto, António (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pequito Teixeira, Conceição (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-Politics and government.; Elections.; Comparative politics.; Democracy.; European Politics.; Electoral Politics.; Comparative Politics.

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 crisi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Portugal before and after the "Great Recession". A resiliente Democracy?
• 2 The Political Economy of Portuguese Crisis Years: The Road not Taken
• 3. The President of the Republic and the Management of the Eurocrisis
• 4. Electoral Systems and Political Reforms: Portugal in Comparative Perspective
• 5. The Portuguese Party System: Evolution in Continuity?
• 6. The Centrality of the Portuguese Parliament: Reform, Troika and "Contraption"
• 7. The Portuguese Constitutional Court and its Austerity Case Law
• 8. New challenges, Old Parties: Party Change in Portugal after the European crisis
• 9. Trade Union Representation and Industrial Relations in Portugal before, during and following the Economic and Financial Crises
• 10. Portugal and Spain in the international protest cycles: from global justice movement to anti-austerity protests
• 11. Political Discontentment and "Democrats with Adjectives" in Portugal post-Troika: Risks and Opportunities.