The contexts of severe economic recession usually change the structure of the political window of opportunity of party systems. In Europe, the Great Recession, what mean facing economic difficulties, applying austerity policies, and deal with the resulting social repercussions, has brought about the transformation of party systems. This work is aimed at descriptively analyzing the degree to which party systems are changing in the period of the Great Recession, paying attention to different components of volatility to define towards what type of political parties the vote is moving and to what extent the stability of the party systems in Ireland, Portugal and Spain is threatened. The main conclusions point out that while party systems have been destabilized especially in Spain and to a lesser extent in Ireland, this trend is not observed in Portugal, where there is surprising stability in the party system.
Keywords:
Elections, Volatility, Party system, Economic Crisis
Plaza-Colodro, C. (2018). ECONOMIC CRISIS AND CHANGE IN PARTY SYSTEMS. A STUDY OF ELECTORAL VOLATILITY IN THREE INTERVENED COUNTRIES (2000-2016). Política. Revista De Ciencia Política, 56(2). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5338.2018.61548
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