Challenging business as usual? The rise of new parties in Spain in times of crisis

Vidal, Guillem

doi:10.1080/01402382.2017.1376272

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“…The economic crisis coincided in time with other intrinsic political problems that led to a dramatic drop in trust in Spanish political institutions (Tormos, ), produced considerable dissatisfaction with the overall political system and triggered a radical shift in political preferences and electoral choices, with pro‐independence positions being favoured in the institutional setup. This line of reasoning is similar to Vidal's, (), who shows that voting for new parties in Spain after the shock of the Great Recession was mainly due to dissatisfaction with the overall political system and went far beyond considerations related to the state of the economy (see also Hernández & Kriesi, ).…”

Section: Political Effects Of Economic Crises and Recoveriessupporting

confidence: 80%

Crisis? What crisis? Economic recovery and support for independence in Catalonia

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Cuadras-Morató

Rodón

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Many political commentators and politicians claim that the effects of the Great Recession account for the surge in support for independence in Catalonia. However, available evidence does not point to a significant role having been played by the economic crisis in this political process. To enhance our understanding of the potential effects of changing economic conditions, we extend our analysis to the subsequent period, when economic recovery had taken place in Catalonia. Even in this very different economic scenario, the same results are found: that is, no evidence of a systematic relationship between changes in economic variables and variations in support for independence.

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Section: Political Effects Of Economic Crises and Recoveriessupporting

confidence: 80%

Crisis? What crisis? Economic recovery and support for independence in Catalonia

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Cuadras-Morató

Rodón

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…By contrast, it seems that the strong focus on renewing the political system and unfulfilled expectations helped them to gain voters from the old radical left and beyond (e.g. Ramiro and Gomez, 2016;Vidal, 2017). To the extent that the new challengers from the left dominate the scene, they are the drivers of the integration of the call for democratic renewal into the traditional left-right division.…”

Section: Conclusion: Restructuring Party Politics and The Rise Of A mentioning

confidence: 99%

Old versus new politics

Hutter¹,

Kriesi²,

Vidal

2018

Party Politics

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The article focuses on the party political spaces in four Southern European countries (i.e. Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) since the onset of the Euro crisis. To understand the emerging conflict structures, it argues for the need to consider that these countries simultaneously face an economic crisis and a political crisis and that both crises have strong domestic and European components. Moreover, the major driving forces of change tend to be social movements and political parties that forcefully combine opposition to austerity and to "old politics." This leads to a complex conflict structure shaped by struggles over austerity and political renewal. In this structure, divides over economic and political issues are closely aligned with each other. While this pattern emerges everywhere, there are distinct country differences. Empirically, the article relies on original data from a large-scale content analysis of national election campaigns in the four countries in the period 2011 to 2015.

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“…Finally, there is also an emerging literature that looks strictly at the impact of the Eurozone crisis on voting in member-states. Several scholars who are investigating this topic are doing so to understand whether the economic vote changes (considering both magnitude and clarity of responsibility) under economic crisis or not (Lewis-Beck and Lobo 2017), while others are seeking to understand the importance that the crisis had for party system change (Vidal 2017). This literature has important implications for the wider debate on the politicization of Europe, as it does for understanding how citizens may have changed their political behaviour.…”

Section: The Eurozone Crisis and Politicizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moving to the individual data level, Vidal (2017) analyses the change in voting behaviour in Spain before and after the Eurozone crisis. Looking at data collected in 2015 and 2016 the author finds that the change in voting behaviour, and especially the choice for the new parties that arise, is a combination of economic voting and dissatisfaction with the overall political system.…”

Section: The Eurozone Crisis and Politicizationmentioning

confidence: 99%