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Support for Democracy in Times of Crisis: Diffuse and Specific Regime Support in Portugal and Greece

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  • Conceição Pequito Teixeira
  • Emmanouil Tsatsanis
  • Ana Maria Belchior

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In the context of a cross-national economic crisis, questions about democratic legitimacy are again topical. We explore the question of democratic legitimacy in Portugal and Greece by employing the conceptual differentiation between diffuse and specific regime support. Our findings indicate that while specific support has fallen in both countries, only Greece has experienced a precipitous fall in diffuse support, suggesting a link between regime performance and support for democracy. Individual-level analyses do not reveal any clear patterns concerning the impact of long-term societal factors or short-term economic considerations. Due to data quality limitations the paper has a predominately exploratory nature.

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  • Conceição Pequito Teixeira & Emmanouil Tsatsanis & Ana Maria Belchior, 2014. "Support for Democracy in Times of Crisis: Diffuse and Specific Regime Support in Portugal and Greece," South European Society and Politics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(4), pages 501-518, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:501-518
    DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.975770
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