[MGSA-L] EUROELECTIONS IN GREECE AND CYPRUS: New articles
Susannah Verney
deplan at otenet.gr
Sat Sep 12 09:19:05 PDT 2015
Two new articles which may be of interest to members of the MGSA list.
The articles are part of a special issue on the 2014 Euroelections - the
full issue will be published in /South European Society and Politics
/later this month.
The articles are available online through the following link:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=fses20
*Habituating to the New Normal in a Post-earthquake Party System: the
2014 European Election in Greece**
**Eftichia Teperoglou, Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Elias Nicolakopoulos*
*Abstract*
The article examines the 2014 European election in Greece. Conducted two
years after the double-earthquake elections of 2012 and with the country
still mired in a protracted economic crisis, our findings largely
support the conclusion that this post-‘earthquake’ election can be
classified as one of the most classic second-order elections in the
history of Greek elections. Both ideology and attribution of blame for
the ongoing economic crisis to the PASOK and ND governments to a large
extent explain the victory of SYRIZA.At the same time, however, more
fundamental positions towards European unification appear to have become
more relevant to party choice for the first time since the early 1980s. **
*Keywords*: European Parliament Elections 2014; Greece; second-order
elections; SYRIZA; Golden Dawn; austerity; party system realignment
**THIS ARTICLE IS ON FREE ACCESS TO ALL READERS**
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*Surprising Elections in Exciting Times? *
*Of Proxies and Second-order Events in the Cypriot Euroelections 2014*
By Giorgos Charalambous, Bambos Papageorgiou and Adonis Pegasiou
*Abstract*
The concept of second-order national elections has generated a rich
literature, but its universality, in particular its predominance in
contexts affected by shocks, has not been sufficiently studied. The 2014
election to the European Parliament in the Republic of Cyprus, taking
place one year after an EU/IMF bailout, could be classified as one of
the most puzzling contests in the history of second-order elections. The
incumbent party, DISY, was not punished, despite the harsh economic
environment in the country, while protest voting affected the opposition
more. Abstention was exceptional, indicating a delegitimisation of the
political system. Moreover, the micro-level analysis reveals that the
decision to vote or abstain was driven by attitudes towards both
domestic institutions on the one hand and European/international
institutions on the other.
*Keywords*: EU/IMF bailout, European Parliament elections 2014, Cyprus,
Second-order Elections Model, Economic Crisis, Abstention
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