Portugal at the Polls: In 2002André Freire, Marina Costa Lobo, Pedro Magalhães Portugal at the Polls is a timely evaluation of the quality of Portuguese democracy. Measuring both political attitudes and electoral behavior, this volume addresses one of the most central features of democracy, the relationship between citizens and institutions. Editors Andre Freire, Marina Costa Lobo, and Pedro Magalhaes take full advantage of the first Portuguese post-electoral academic survey to complete this study. Moreover, the study theoretically analyzes the contribution of behavioral and political attitudes to the particular 2002 election as well as Portuguese democratic politics in general. While each chapter explores specific details, the chapters generally fall into one of two over arching themes. The first theme contextualizes Portugal in a greater trend of elections being based on candidate image and economic performance at the cost of long-term social goals. The second theme incorporates Portugal into recent scholarship of other industrial democracies, which has amassed an important body of evidence about growing political dissatisfaction and disengagement of citizens. The editors have synthesized the important but fragmentary scholarship addressing Portugal's "political malaise".Portugal at the Polls is essential reading for any scholar interested in contemporary Portuguese politics. |
Contents
Introduction Portugal at the Polls in 2002 | 8 |
Portuguese Elections in Comparative Perspective Parties and Electoral Behavior in Southern Europe | 11 |
The Same Old Cleavages? Old Cleavages and New Values | 49 |
Economics Popularity and Vote Intentions A Longitudinal Analysis with Aggregate Data | 75 |
Issue Voting in Portugal | 101 |
Leader Effects in a Longitudinal Perspective | 125 |
Abstention in the 2002 Elections | 143 |
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