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https://doi.org/10.17818/SM/2021/1.2

After the Storm: Party Systems in Southern Europe in the Wake of the Eurocrisis

Višeslav Raos orcid.org/0000-0003-2651-1813 ; Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Sažetak

For years, the countries of Southern Europe have struggled
with the consequences of the sovereign debt crisis. Under
external pressure they enacted harsh austerity measures
which resulted in shaken trust in the European Union,
new protest movements and the entrance of new political
parties in legislatures and governments. A decade later,
this paper poses the question whether the storm of the
European sovereign debt crisis has left an impact on
Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. The article focuses on
changes on the macro-level and analyzes party system
changes with the help of data from the CMP/MARPOR
dataset. The paper deals with changes in the attitude
towards the European Union, the position on the left-right
scale (RILE), as well as economic and welfare policy. The
analysis has shown a weak decrease in positive attitudes
towards the EU in Italy, a moderate leftward shift of the
Spanish party system, as well as a moderate decrease
in positive attitudes towards the role of the state in the
economy in the Greek case. In conclusion, one can say
that ten years after the European sovereign debt crisis
it is not possible to speak of drastic party system change
in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and that external
pressure has not succeeded in having an impact on the
fact that Southern European party systems are, in general,
titled towards the left.

Ključne riječi

Southern Europe, European sovereign debt crisis, Euroscepticism, policy shift, electoral manifestos

Hrčak ID:

271979

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/271979

Datum izdavanja:

25.1.2022.

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