Tag: Panhellenic Socialist Movement

• The Political Consequences of Austerity in Southern Europe

  July 31, 2013

  Austerity, Eurozone Crisis

  So I have written a blog post (both in Spanish on El Diario’s Agenda Publica and in English on the LSE’s Europp blog) that seeks to explain why the Portuguese party system has stayed relatively stable in the face of austerity policies while the Greek party system has exploded. The main arguments were 1)   that Read.

• How Austerity Killed Greek Parties, While Portuguese Parties Survived

  July 5, 2013

  Austerity, Eurozone Crisis

  This shows the electoral score of the two mainstream parties in Greece and Portugal in 2009 (before the outbreak of the crisis) and in 2011 (in Portugal) and 2012 (in Greece), after the outbreak of the crisis. For Greece, this shows the results of the May elections; new elections were held in June as no Read.