The economic geography of European Union’s discontent: Lessons from Greece

Autor: Panagiotis Artelaris
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: European Urban and Regional Studies. 29:479-497
ISSN: 1461-7145
0969-7764
Popis: The regions of the European Union are currently experiencing a period of seismic change that has transformed their established voting patterns and increased anti–European Union voting. Applying objective economic measures, spatial econometrics and municipal voting data from recent elections and a referendum, this study examines the factors shaping anti–European Union votes in Greece. The results indicate a strong link between the country’s changing economic geography and the geography of the anti–European Union vote, providing evidence not only of the ‘geography of discontent’ and the ‘left-behind hypothesis’ but also of the ‘geography of austerity’ associated with the heterogeneous effects of fiscal consolidation and austerity policies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE