The 2015 general election marked the end of the two-party system that had existed in Spain
since the restoration of democracy. Two new parties,'Podemos' and 'Ciudadanos', entered …

This is the first comprehensive overview of the waves of protest mobilization that spread
across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession. Documenting the extent of these protests …

This paper investigates how the refugee crisis has affected attitudes towards the EU, as well
as attitudes towards national institutions. By combining different waves of individual survey …

The relationships among objective macroeconomic outcomes, subjective evaluations, and
political trust are widely studied. Yet, these relationships are not as straightforward as they …

The 2014 European Parliament (EP) election in Spain took place in a context of deep
economic recession and distrust of political institutions. These conditions triggered an …

In this article it is argued that citizens take into account the degree of a government's political
autonomy to implement particular policies when expressing their views on satisfaction with …

The euro crisis brought back a widening gap in prosperity between the eurozone's core and
periphery members, but also revealed a divergence in the strength of its national …

The traditional Spanish imperfect bipartisanship and the alternation in power that emerged
in the early 80s between the center-left PSOE and the conservative PP have shifted towards …

This study tests the links between economic performance, democratic quality and
satisfaction with democracy (SWD) at multiple levels. By analysing a time-series cross …

When you're studying something like the mainstreaming of the far right, the people who
bring light to your life seem to shine even brighter, so I want to thank all those around me …