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This book explores the argument that Portugal has been an exception
to the trend of political upheaval and electoral instability across
Southern Europe following the financial crisis and the bailout
period. It does so by mapping and exploring in-depth three key
dimensions: the governmental arena, the party system and
citizens’ political attitudes. The five chapters in this edited
volume show that a number of factors combine to make Portugal not
only a very stimulating case study, but also an exception within
the South European panorama: the stability of its party system, and
that of the mainstream parties’ electoral support in particular;
the quick recovery of political attitudes after the end of the
bailout period (2011-2014); the absence of competitive populist
challengers until 2019, despite high levels of populist attitudes
amongst the citizenry; the successful and stable union between
anti-austerity parties supporting the socialist government (dubbed
the ‘Contraption’) and its adoption of an ‘austerity by
stealth’ model. This book shows that it is possible to combine
critical junctures and political stability, responsiveness and
responsibility, through the study of one of the most intriguing
cases in Southern Europe in the last decades. The Exceptional Case
of Post-Bailout Portugal will be of interest to students,
researchers and scholars of Political Science and European Studies.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the journal, South European Society and Politics.
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