Bringing the Past Back in: How Attitudes towards the Democratic Transition Influence the Portuguese Voter

Marina Costa Lobo

South European Society and Politics, 2016, vol. 21, issue 2, 181-196

Abstract: This article analyses the way in which attitudes towards the transition to democracy explain party identification and ideology in Portugal. This question is important because the transition to democracy in Portugal was a turbulent process marked by a rupture with the past and institutional fluidity. It has also conditioned the main political parties’ relationships with the electorate and each other since 1974. I compare the same explanatory model results from two surveys, conducted in 2004 and 2014, respectively, to understand the extent to which perceptions about the transition help characterise the Portuguese voter over the last decade.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1144249

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