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Electoral Coalitions and Policy Reversals in Portugal and Italy in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis

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  • Alexandre Afonso
  • Fabio Bulfone

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This paper links patterns of deregulatory reforms and post-crisis reversals in Italy and Portugal with the electoral constituencies of political parties. Combining insights from the social coalitions and electoral behaviour debates, we link reform outcomes to the class set-up of the electorate in the two countries by using the class schema developed by Daniel Oesch. We find that governments in both countries reversed austerity measures in order to protect core groups of voters within their electorate in spite of wide ideological differences between governing coalitions in the two countries. There is, however, some variation in the extent of the reversals across policy areas.

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  • Alexandre Afonso & Fabio Bulfone, 2019. "Electoral Coalitions and Policy Reversals in Portugal and Italy in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis," South European Society and Politics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 233-257, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:2:p:233-257
    DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1644809
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    1. Ignacio à lvarez & Jesús Cruces & Francisco Trillo, 2023. "Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 37(6), pages 1517-1543, December.
    2. Marco Di Giulio & Giancarlo Vecchi, 2023. "How “institutionalization” can work. Structuring governance for digital transformation in Italy," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 40(3), pages 406-432, May.
    3. Rathgeb, Philip & Hopkin, Jonathan, 2023. "How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120673, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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