Political Legacies of the Eurozone Crisis

This project addresses the questions of what explains support for different economic policies and political parties in the countries that were most hit by the Eurozone crisis.

It asks why some voters supported austerity and labour-market reform measures, how preferences related to support for new political parties and whether the crisis affected beliefs about which institutions and policies can prevent future crises.

It argues that to explain the variation within and across countries, both local-level context and individual experiences during the crisis matter.

To test these hypotheses, the project therefore proposes collecting and analysing existing and new public-opinion, locality level, and media context data to understand these questions, in three countries that experienced the crisis but with different political trajectories: Italy, Portugal and Spain.