The Political Consequences of the Financial and Economic Crisis in Europe: Electoral Punishment and Popular Protest

Kriesi, Hanspeter

doi:10.1111/spsr.12006

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“…The continental countries have intermediate levels of socio-economic welfare and most of them are modestly affected by the crisis. Finally the two countries with liberal welfare regimes (the UK and Ireland) have been hit relatively hard by the crisis (Kriesi 2013). We hypothesise that the type of welfare state and socio-economic performance have a moderating effect on the degree to which citizens satisfied with democracy during the Great Recession (H5).…”

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“…It has weakened the problem-solving capacity of democratic systems which increased dissatisfaction with politics and performance and the trust in politicians in many established democracies. Examples are the Southern European democracies which have been hit hard by this crisis (according to the Economic Crisis Index which is calculated as: GDP Growth -Unemployment + Deficit-Surplus, see Kriesi 2013), but also a number of Eastern European countries like Hungary in which voters are increasingly dissatisfied with the functioning of party democracy. In other countries, the support for democracy has not changed, like in Sweden and Germany.…”

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When and where did the great recession erode the support of democracy?

Pennings

2017

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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It is likely that ten years of economic crisis have eroded the support of democracy in Europe. But how much? The existing research is divided on this issue. Some claim that the degree of satisfaction with democracy has declined across the whole of Europe during the Great Recession. Other researchers have found no empirical evidence that the support of democracy as a core value has declined across Europe. They claim that merely the specific support has decreased in some countries. This article will use the data from the European Social Survey to verify both claims. It shows that the Great Recession did not lead to a legitimacy crisis of European democracies and that the diffuse support of democracy remains high in most regions. The degree to which the specific support of democracy has been weakened is moderated by the type of welfare regime. In countries where the economic crisis did strike hard and the welfare state is weakly developed, the support of democracy has dropped dramatically. This outcome takes a middle position between two extremes in the ongoing academic debate on the support of democracy. Both positions regarding the increase or decrease of support of and satisfaction with democracy are in need of more nuance by taking into account the impact of welfare regimes. Existing research often assumes a uniform European context that shows either increasing or decreasing levels of satisfaction with democracy. Our research has shown that the response of citizens to the Great Recession has been influenced by the welfare regime.The Appendix includes descriptive analyses of the variations in satisfaction with democracy within the regions, trust by level of education, trends in trust and satisfaction with government and democracy, variations in poverty and income inequality. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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When and where did the great recession erode the support of democracy?

Pennings

2017

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“…We argue that the political context of an action has important repercussions for how we understand it in terms of its contentiousness. As others before us have argued (Heaney and Rojas 2014;Hutter 2014;Kriesi 2014;McAdam and Tarrow 2010), electoral politics and protest politics need to be studied together in order to arrive at a better understanding of why and how citizens hold governments to account, both in times of crisis as well as in more ''ordinary'' times.…”

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“…These aspects have been widely studied in previous research with respect to voting behaviour (Lewis-Beck andStegmaier 2000, 2007;Lewis-Beck and Paldam 2000;Lewis-Beck 1988), but not so much in the context of non-institutionalised forms of political participation. Thus, we heed recent calls to bridge the gap between the study of electoral politics and that of protest politics (Heaney and Rojas 2014;Hutter 2014;Kriesi 2014;McAdam and Tarrow 2010). Third, continuing a research agenda we begun elsewhere (Giugni and Grasso 2016), we aim to disentangle the way in which deprivation interacts with individual perceptions on the broader political and economic environment to impact on political behaviour in times of crisis.…”

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Blame and contention: how perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis shape patterns of political action

Giugni

Grasso

2017

Acta Polit

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In this paper we analyse the extent to which perceptions of the government's role in the economic crisis impacted on the political behaviour of European citizens. This includes contentious political activities such as attending public meetings, participating in demonstrations, and joining strikes, but also electoral behaviour in the form of voting against the incumbent. We examine data from 2015 since it allows us to examine European nations experiencing different economic conditions as a result of the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent period of recession. We find that individuals who blamed the national government for the economic crisis and who were more unsatisfied with the government's handling of unemployment were more likely to participate. However, the effect of these variables varied across different forms of political behaviour. Moreover, the study provides evidence that the effect of the perceptions of one's own economic situation on political behaviour is conditional upon the perceptions people have of the way in which the government is dealing with the situation, and specifically with unemployment, a key marker of the extent of the negative effects of the economic crisis across European nations.

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“…Kriesi (2014) found that in European countries one of the first signs of popular discontent was a drastic shift in voting patterns (Beissinger et al, 2014;Bermeo and Bartels, 2013;Kanellopoulos and Kousis, forthcoming). Extending the literature on economic voting, he argues that, depending on the party system, disaffected voters turned to established opposition parties or, in the face of austerity cuts and job losses, opted to 'exit' by 1) rejecting all mainstream parties, the established political elites, or the 'political class', 2) opting for new challengers in the party system who typically adopted populist appeals -i.e.…”

Section: Iii3 Economic Crisis and Economic Votingmentioning

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Understanding Enemy Images in Central and Eastern European Politics

Gerő

Płucienniczak²,

Kluknavská

et al. 2017

Intersections

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In recent years, Europe has experienced a rise in politics based on antagonism, often discussed from the perspectives of populism and the mainstreaming of the ideologies of the radical right. In this study, we argue that there is a need for an interdisciplinary, theoretically broader and more empirically focused approach that fosters understanding of these developments. To explore the causal factors, we focus on the enemy images that are constructed and diffused by politicians, and their specific historical and structural contexts. The paper thus has two main components: First, we review what political theory, research on populism and on the extreme right and social psychology say about the functions of the use and development of enemy images. Second, we highlight the contextual factors that we consider make the success of a politics based on enemy images more likely in Central and Eastern Europe.

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The Political Consequences of the Financial and Economic Crisis in Europe: Electoral Punishment and Popular Protest

Cited by 141 publications

References 7 publications

When and where did the great recession erode the support of democracy?

When and where did the great recession erode the support of democracy?

Blame and contention: how perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis shape patterns of political action

Understanding Enemy Images in Central and Eastern European Politics

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