ABSTRACT
This collective volume - with contributions from experts on these regions - examines broader questions about the current crises (The Great Recession and The Commodity Crisis) and the associated changes in political representation in both regions.
It provides a general overview of political representation studies in Southern Europe and Latin America and builds bridges between the two traditions of political representation studies, affording greater understanding of developments in each region and promote future research collaboration between Southern Europe and Latin America. Finally, the book addresses questions of continuity and change in patterns of political representation after the onset of the two economic crises, specifically examining issues such as changes in citizens’ democratic support and trust in political representatives and institutions, in-descriptive representation (in the sociodemographic profile of MPs) and in-substantive representation (in the link between voters and MPs in terms of ideological congruence and/or policy/issue orientations).
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, political representation, European and Latin American politics/studies, and more broadly to comparative politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part I|121 pages
Southern Europe
chapter 1|17 pages
Southern Europe and the Eurozone Crisis
chapter 2|16 pages
The Study of Political Representation in Greece
chapter 4|19 pages
Political Representation in Portugal Before and After the Great Recession
chapter 5|17 pages
It Is Not Just the Economy
chapter 7|16 pages
Methodological Challenges in the Study of Political Elites
part II|117 pages
Latin America