Comparing deputies’ and voters’ support for Europe: The case of Portugal

Moury, Catherine; Sousa, Luís de

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“…There were important ideological differences between the two governments in office during this period. On the one hand, PS ( Partido Socialista , Socialist Party) had been moving towards the centre as a vote maximisation strategy in the decade prior to the bail‐out (Costa Lobo & Magalhães ; Moury & Sousa ) . On the other hand, the PSD leader, Pedro Passos Coelho, had been elected on a ‘neoliberal’ platform, departing from his forerunners and rivals who were more protective of social policies (Lisi : 137–138; Freire & Santana‐Pereira ).…”

Section: The Portuguese Sovereign Debt Crisis As a Case Studymentioning

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‘Going beyond the Troika’: Power and discourse in Portuguese austerity politics

Moury

Standring

2017

European J Political Res

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This article analyses the margin of manoeuvre of Portuguese executives after the onset of the sovereign debt crisis in 2010–2015. To obtain a full understanding of what happened behind the closed doors of international meetings, different types of data are triangulated: face‐to‐face interviews; investigations by journalists; and International Monetary Fund and European Union official documents. The findings are compared to the public discourse of Prime Ministers José Sócrates and Pedro Passos‐Coelho. It is shown that while the sovereign debt crisis and the bail‐out limited the executive's autonomy, they also made them stronger in relation to other domestic actors. The perceived need for ‘credibility’ in order to avoid a ‘negative’ reaction from the markets – later associated with the conditions of the bail‐out – concurrently gave the executives a legitimate justification to concentrate power in their hands and a strong argument to counter the opponents of their proposed reforms. Consequently, when Portuguese ministers favoured policies that were in congruence with those supported by international actors, they were able to use the crisis to advance their own agenda. Disagreement with Troika representatives implied the start of a negotiation process between the ministers and international lenders, the final outcome of which depended on the actors’ bargaining powers. These strategies, it is argued, constitute a tactic of depoliticisation in which both the material constraints and the discourse used to frame them are employed to construct imperatives around a narrow selection of policy alternatives.

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Section: The Portuguese Sovereign Debt Crisis As a Case Studymentioning

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‘Going beyond the Troika’: Power and discourse in Portuguese austerity politics

Moury

Standring

2017

European J Political Res

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“…Two different kinds of analysis -one based on interviews with Portuguese MPs conducted at the beginning of the crisis in 2008 (Moury & De Sousa, 2011), and the other based on the study of party manifestos in the period from 1995 to 2005 (Costa Lobo & Magalhães, 2011) -indeed converge to show that the two major parties, the PS and PSD, have a very strong pro-European attitude. However, these studies also show a difference within both mainstream and opposition parties.…”

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“…However, these studies also show a difference within both mainstream and opposition parties. While the manifestos of the three radical left parties (Leftist Bloc BE, the Communist PCP and the Greens PEV), which have never been in government, present strong anti-European stances, Moury and De Sousa (2011) observed that a large majority of BE deputies believes that EU membership is a good thing (66 . 7 per cent), in contrast to the small minority (29 per cent) of the CDU (PCP-PEV) deputies who agree with this statement.…”

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Incumbents, Opposition and International Lenders: Governing Portugal in Times of Crisis

Giorgi¹,

Moury²,

Ruivo³

2014

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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The Portuguese case provides a unique opportunity to study the opposition's behaviour in a variety of political conditions. It offers an insight into the impact of the financial crisis on the opposition's behaviour in both majority and minority political settings. It allows the comparison of the opposition's relationship with a minority government, during which non-collaboration could have dramatic consequences, and also with a majority government, when such a choice does not have major political or policy implications. Moreover, it enables us to study the effect of an additional veto player (the so-called troika composed of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund), which not only constrains both majority and opposition parties, but also gives political entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to push ahead with liberal measures -in this case, clearly in disagreement with the moderate and radical left programmes. Relying on quantitative data on the legislative behaviour of the parliamentary party groups in the period 1995-2012, and on qualitative process-tracking of the opposition's positions on key economic issues -such as the decision to vote against Prime Minister Sócrates' last austerity package after a series of approvals -this article aims to determine whether, and if yes how, the financial crisis has affected the behaviour of the Portuguese opposition parties in parliament, by examining and comparing their behaviour in hard and in normal times.

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“…Obviously, this third hypothesis is related to the former as parties that are permanently out of government tend to be more Eurosceptic (Sitter, 2001;Taggart, 1998), while Eurosceptic parties that want to become credible coalition partners frequently moderate their hostility to Europe (Conti & De Giorgi, 2011;Costa Lobo & Magalha ˜es, 2011). Two different kinds of analysis -one based on interviews with Portuguese MPs conducted at the beginning of the crisis in 2008 (Moury & De Sousa, 2011), and the other based on the study of party manifestos in the period from 1995 to 2005 (Costa Lobo & Magalha ˜es, 2011) -indeed converge to show that the two major parties, the PS and PSD, have a very strong pro-European attitude. However, these studies also show a difference within both mainstream and opposition parties.…”

Section: Theoretical Argument and Hypothesesmentioning

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Incumbents, Opposition and International Lenders: Governing Portugal in Times of Crisis

Giorgi¹,

Moury²,

Ruivo³

2017

Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries During the Economic Crisis

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The Portuguese case provides a unique opportunity to study the opposition's behaviour in a variety of political conditions. It offers an insight into the impact of the financial crisis on the opposition's behaviour in both majority and minority political settings. It allows the comparison of the opposition's relationship with a minority government, during which non-collaboration could have dramatic consequences, and also with a majority government, when such a choice does not have major political or policy implications. Moreover, it enables us to study the effect of an additional veto player (the so-called troika composed of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund), which not only constrains both majority and opposition parties, but also gives political entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to push ahead with liberal measures -in this case, clearly in disagreement with the moderate and radical left programmes. Relying on quantitative data on the legislative behaviour of the parliamentary party groups in the period 1995-2012, and on qualitative process-tracking of the opposition's positions on key economic issues -such as the decision to vote against Prime Minister So ´crates' last austerity package after a series of approvals -this article aims to determine whether, and if yes how, the financial crisis has affected the behaviour of the Portuguese opposition parties in parliament, by examining and comparing their behaviour in hard and in normal times.

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Comparing deputies’ and voters’ support for Europe: The case of Portugal

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Cited by 5 publications

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‘Going beyond the Troika’: Power and discourse in Portuguese austerity politics

‘Going beyond the Troika’: Power and discourse in Portuguese austerity politics

Incumbents, Opposition and International Lenders: Governing Portugal in Times of Crisis

Incumbents, Opposition and International Lenders: Governing Portugal in Times of Crisis

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