Pedro C. Magalhães is principal researcher in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests include public opinion, voting behaviour, political attitudes, and judicial politics.

• 1. Introduction – Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Electoral Politics 2. The Collapse: Economic Considerations in Vote Choice in Iceland 3. A Conservative Revolution: The Electoral Response to Economic Crisis in Ireland 4. The Elections of the Great Recession in Portugal: Performance Voting under a Blurred Responsibility for the Economy 5. The Incumbent Electoral Defeat in the 2011 Spanish National Elections: The Effect of the Economic Crisis in an Ideological Polarized Party System 6. Dealignment, De-legitimation and the Implosion of the Two- Party System in Greece: The Earthquake Election of 6 May 2012 7. The Political Consequences of Blame Attribution for the Economic Crisis in the 2013 Italian National Election

Pedro C. Magalhães is principal researcher in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests include public opinion, voting behaviour, political attitudes, and judicial politics.

• 1. Introduction – Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Electoral Politics 2. The Collapse: Economic Considerations in Vote Choice in Iceland 3. A Conservative Revolution: The Electoral Response to Economic Crisis in Ireland 4. The Elections of the Great Recession in Portugal: Performance Voting under a Blurred Responsibility for the Economy 5. The Incumbent Electoral Defeat in the 2011 Spanish National Elections: The Effect of the Economic Crisis in an Ideological Polarized Party System 6. Dealignment, De-legitimation and the Implosion of the Two- Party System in Greece: The Earthquake Election of 6 May 2012 7. The Political Consequences of Blame Attribution for the Economic Crisis in the 2013 Italian National Election

Pedro C. Magalhães is principal researcher in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests include public opinion, voting behaviour, political attitudes, and judicial politics.

• 1. Introduction – Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Electoral Politics 2. The Collapse: Economic Considerations in Vote Choice in Iceland 3. A Conservative Revolution: The Electoral Response to Economic Crisis in Ireland 4. The Elections of the Great Recession in Portugal: Performance Voting under a Blurred Responsibility for the Economy 5. The Incumbent Electoral Defeat in the 2011 Spanish National Elections: The Effect of the Economic Crisis in an Ideological Polarized Party System 6. Dealignment, De-legitimation and the Implosion of the Two- Party System in Greece: The Earthquake Election of 6 May 2012 7. The Political Consequences of Blame Attribution for the Economic Crisis in the 2013 Italian National Election