Electoral Epidemic: The Political Cost of Economic Crisis in Southern Europe, 2010–11

摘要: This article introduces a collection of essays on the elections 2010–11 in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus and Turkish Cypriot community. It examines impact European sovereign debt crisis electoral trends era Greek Portuguese bailouts. After briefly examining economies, it investigates patterns abstention, incumbent punishment opposition success, including rise regional, anti-party, far-right racist parties. The concludes, following Krastev (Journal Democracy, vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 39–53), that is creating ‘democracy without choices’ Southern Europe with potentially destabilising consequences throughout region.