Marco Lisi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3694344 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marco Lisi |
| NOMBRES | Marco |
| APELLIDO | Lisi |
| FIRMA | LISI M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9833-0347 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 319 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
The structural breakthrough of new parties in 21st-century Europe
The rise of new political parties in Europe over the past two decades has fundamentally transformed the political landscape, challenging the dominance of established parties and reshaping electoral dynamics. This study investigates the emergence of new political parties in 21st-century Europe through a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). We identify and analyze the conditions for their electoral performance, revealing that no necessary condit…
United We Stand? Populism and Party Cohesion
This study investigates the ambivalent relationship between populism and party cohesion. While populist parties often project unified fronts against “corrupt elites,” their heterogeneous support bases and anti-establishment origins may foster internal divisions. Using V-Party data, we test whether populist parties demonstrate higher or lower degrees of intra-party unity than traditional parties. Our analysis uncovers a strong negative relationshi…
The beliefs of young parliamentary candidates on democracy and the moderation role of populism
This paper explores the attitudes of young parliamentary candidates towards representative democracy, examining the potential moderating role of populism. Existing research points to declining youth trust in political institutions, but lacks understanding of how young prospective MPs, especially from populist parties, perceive representative democracy. Drawing from the Comparative Candidates Survey across 18 European countries, the study analyses…
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties
Populist parties are often described as highly centralised and personalistic, with low levels of party institutionalisation. However, there have been few empirical studies to assess the features of decision-making processes within this party family. This study aims to address this gap by examining the extent to which the internal distribution of power varies within populist parties. The Political Party Database is used to systematically compare E…
Party digitalization and website features
The emergence of new digital tools has brought about a revolution in party organizations. However, the literature is still lacking comparative studies that utilize comprehensive theoretical frameworks and consider variations in the supply‐side of party digitalization. This paper addresses both shortcomings by turning the spotlight on party websites. By relying on data from the Political Party Database, we delve into the determinants of website fu…
Political Parties and the Use of Digitalization in Daily Politics
This special issue examines how digital tools influence the characteristics and functions of political parties by looking at three specific dimensions: intra‐party communication, attitudes towards digitalization, and the use of digital tools in different institutional arenas. It advances our understanding of party digitalization in three significant ways. First, the collection of articles aims to shift the focus of party digitalization to everyda…
Populism and democratic attitudes
The rise of new populist parties has raised concerns for representative political systems and the quality of democracies, by challenging the liberal checks and balances in the name of the ‘general will’. Empirical research has found that populist voters tend to be more dissatisfied with democracy and supportive of direct procedures, while feelings of misrepresentation increase the display of populist attitudes. However, it remains unclear whether…
How framing impacts attitudes about electoral rights for non‐resident citizens
Widespread adoption of policies granting electoral rights to citizens living abroad has spurred vivid scholarly debates regarding the drivers and consequences of extra‐territorial enfranchisement. But, little is known about the views of resident citizens in origin countries on the matter. We address this research gap and investigate how resident citizens' attitudes to external voting rights are affected by different arguments usually salient in h…
Can Interest Groups Improve Democratic Representation? A Citizen Perspective
This article aims to examine how citizens evaluate the contribution of interest groups to the functioning of representative democracies, focusing on several dimensions related to political representation and democratic governance. Drawing on an original online survey conducted to a representative sample of the population in Portugal, we investigate the correlates of citizens' perceptions regarding interest groups, in particular the impact of indi…
Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations
At a time when party politics is becoming increasingly personalised, conventional wisdom argues that the party leaders’ power in organisations is on the rise. However, scholarship has not yet provided a thorough and systematic analysis of the role of party leaders that offers theoretical and empirical specification. The aim of this article is to provide an analytical framework for the study of party leadership by examining the concept of leadersh…
Looking for Ariadne’s thread
All too often, research on the relationship between political parties and interest groups has followed different paths. In a research field dominated by multiple and disconnected approaches, an overview of where we stand and what we know is pertinent. This study reviews and assesses the empirical evidence brought forward through a systematic analysis of 182 studies on the topic. We address three key questions. What are the analytical and theoreti…
Campaigns without civil society? The involvement of organized interests in electoral politics
Elections are key moments for interactions between civil society and representatives. While bottom-up mobilization tries to influence the composition of parliament and policy outputs, political parties and politicians engage with broader civil society to strengthen their legitimacy and to obtain strategic benefits in terms of electoral results. This study focuses on the role organized interests play in election campaigns and explains why collecti…
(Un)ready for change? The debate about electronic voting in Portugal and its implementation before and after the pandemic era
The use of electronic voting has been considered an important tool to improve electoral processes in some circumstances, with potential effects in party-voter linkages and participation. However, many countries are skeptical in adopting this digital tool and there are relevant shortcomings in the implementation of electronic voting. Despite favorable conditions for the innovation in voting mechanisms, Portugal is one of the countries still consid…
Party–group interactions in Southern Europe
Despite the development of empirical research on the relations between parties and interest groups, the topic is still understudied and presents several shortcomings. On the one hand, this relationship has been studied mostly from the political parties' point of view. On the other, there is a lack of consensus regarding the determinants of party–group connection. This study aims to advance our knowledge on the topic by examining the relationship …
Age, period and cohort effects in a dealigned electorate
Whereas many advanced democracies experience a long‐term process of dealignment, the impact of age, period and cohort on late deciders and vote switchers is still unclear. In addition, extant research fails to systematically examine the determinants that account for the time of vote decision compared to explanations of vote change at the individual level. Drawing on pooled data that include election surveys for Portuguese legislative elections he…
Interest group strategies and policy involvement
The ‘Lost Generation’ and Its Political Discontents
Although public discussion about the economic crisis of the late 2000s to mid-2010s in Southern Europe often refers to its impact on the region’s younger citizens, not enough attention has been given to the political consequences of the crisis on the young. Focusing on the cases of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, this introduction to the special issue on age-related rifts in post-crisis Southern Europe offers an overview of the contributions a…
Assessing the Impact of Age, Cohort and Period Effects on Partisanship and Support for Mainstream Parties
The article examines the link between time effects and dealignment in Southern European countries, which allows us to assess the relative importance of short- and long-term factors on the political instability of the region during the Eurocrisis. First, we analyse life cycle, cohort and period effects on partisan identities across countries. Second, we investigate to what extent time-related factors have been responsible for the erosion of the vo…
Labour and left-wing parties’ programmatic orientations
The steady weakening of the relationship between parties and civil society, in particular trade unions, has been the subject of considerable research. The same cannot be said, however, of the programmatic salience assigned by political parties to labour issues. This paper aims to explore how different party families relate to labour through a quantitative and qualitative approach. First, data from the MARPOR/Comparative Manifestos Project is used…
Standing Alone? Towards a More Unified View of Party–Group Relations in Contemporary Democracies
This article focuses on the relationship between political parties and interest groups in contemporary democracies. Although this is a key topic for assessing the evolution of representative political systems and the quality of democracies, the theoretical and empirical studies have not developed a cumulative body of knowledge. As well as the lack of an integrated perspective, we argue that the literature on this topic has remained conceptually f…
All Quiet on the European Front? Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on Euroscepticism in Portugal
During the Great Recession, radical left parties in Portugal intensified their opposition to Europe and public opinion became increasingly eurosceptic. Nevertheless, the cooperation among leftist parties following the 2015 elections, which brought eurosceptic parties into power, coincided with a rise in positive attitudes towards the EU. This paper aims to explain this puzzle by examining party stances and citizens’ views on Europe before and aft…
Party System Renewal or Business as Usual? Continuity and Change in Post-Bailout Portugal
Marco Lisi* , Edalina Rodrigues Sanches & Jayane dos Santos Maia Marco Lisi is Associate Professor in the department of Political Studies, Nova University of Lisbon and Researcher at IPRI-NOVA. His research interests focus on political parties, electoral behaviour, political representation, interest groups and election campaigns. He has published a number of articles in academic journals including West European Politics, Party Politics, Comparati…
Economic crisis and the variety of populist response
Greece, Portugal and Spain are among the countries worst hit by the 2008 Great Recession, followed by significant electoral and political turmoil. However, one of the dimensions in which they differ is the presence and varieties of populism in parties’ political proposals. Drawing on holistic coding of party manifestos, we assess the varying presence of populist rhetoric in mainstream and challenger parties before and after the 2008 economic down…
Types of party members and their implications
Scholars have emphasized the decline of party membership and a decrease in party activism. Yet these general patterns hide a diversity of party members with distinct profiles, attitudes and behavior. Using Portugal as a case study, this article examines the heterogeneity of party members based on the different motivations for joining the party and distinct levels of involvement. The findings support previous typologies that distinguished between …
Party innovation, hybridization and the crisis
The literature on populist parties has tended to look at this new phenomenon as distinct from traditional party models. While there are a number of studies focusing on specific dimensions, there have been few attempts to systematically examine the features of these new players through the eyes of distinct party types. This work uses the case of Podemos to highlight what distinguished this new party from mainstream parties. We consider the followi…
Political Representation in Bailed-out Southern Europe
The emergence of the economic and financial crisis has already shown important electoral and political consequences in southern Europe. Drawing on the experience of two bailed-out countries, Greece and Portugal, we use original data collected before and after 2008 to examine how patterns of political representation have changed during this period. We argue that austerity measures have significantly affected the way MPs represent their electorates…
Economic crisis and the variety of populist response
Greece, Portugal and Spain are among the countries worst hit by the 2008 Great Recession, followed by significant electoral and political turmoil. However, one of the dimensions in which they differ is the presence and varieties of populism in parties’ political proposals. Drawing on holistic coding of party manifestos, we assess the varying presence of populist rhetoric in mainstream and challenger parties before and after the 2008 economic down…
U-Turn
The 2015 legislative elections in Portugal led to a major shift in the characteristics of the party system through the formation of a socialist minority government supported by the Left Block and the Portuguese Communist Party. This study examines the trajectory of the radical left in Portugal since the implementation of the 2011 EU–International Monetary Fund bailout and analyses the possible reasons for the parties becoming coalition partners. …
Zippin’ up My Boots, Goin’ Back to My Roots
Radical left parties actively encourage the participation of their members in internal decision-making and insist on promoting organised links to trade unions and social movements. As a party family, they deviate from what is considered to be the trend in which Western political parties have turned their backs on their social roots. Drawing on the experience of South European radical left parties from the fall of the Berlin Wall until the recent …
The Renewal of the Socialist Majority
Productivity and Reselection in a Party-based Environment
Portugal is a crucial case when studying candidate reselection in a party-dominated setting. While we expect the productivity of Members of Parliament (MP) to be strongly associated with reselection, it should not affect the position of reselected representatives on the party list. These expectations are tested using data on MPs’ parliamentary activities across eight years (from 2007 to 2015), while controlling for alternative hypotheses. Althoug…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? External Voting and the Political Representation of Portuguese Emigrants
Over recent decades, emigrants have gained expanded voting rights on a global scale. Despite the normative debates about this issue, there are few empirical studies on why states decide to implement external voting and how electoral systems perform. This article seeks to fill this gap by looking at the Portuguese case. Our study suggests that a combination of political and socio-economic factors explains the implementation of external voting. On …
Rediscovering Civil Society? Renewal and Continuity in the Portuguese Radical Left
The importance of party organisational models to party-civil-society relations has been substantially overlooked in the scholarly literature. Drawing on the Portuguese case, this study examines to what extent radical left parties have established different links with civil society, namely by allying with social movements and trade unions. Our findings confirm that party organisational models significantly shape the relationship between the radica…
Party System Renewal or Business as Usual? Continuity and Change in Post-Bailout Portugal
Marco Lisi* , Edalina Rodrigues Sanches & Jayane dos Santos Maia Marco Lisi is Associate Professor in the department of Political Studies, Nova University of Lisbon and Researcher at IPRI-NOVA. His research interests focus on political parties, electoral behaviour, political representation, interest groups and election campaigns. He has published a number of articles in academic journals including West European Politics, Party Politics, Comparati…
Types of party members and their implications
Scholars have emphasized the decline of party membership and a decrease in party activism. Yet these general patterns hide a diversity of party members with distinct profiles, attitudes and behavior. Using Portugal as a case study, this article examines the heterogeneity of party members based on the different motivations for joining the party and distinct levels of involvement. The findings support previous typologies that distinguished between …
Populism, Blame Shifting and the Crisis
Populist parties have been gaining ground in European political systems. Against this backcloth, Portugal stands out as the only Southern European country in which traditional mainstream parties have not faced a sharp rise in populist challengers. This article relies on content analysis of election manifestos to examine the use of populist claims by the main Portuguese parties before and after the crisis (1995–2015). Our findings reveal that popu…
The professionalization of campaigns in recent democracies
The fact that political campaigns in contemporary western democracies are fully professionalized seems to be unchallenged. Yet, the empirical evidence concerns few advanced democracies and mainly the main governing parties. We know little about the characteristics of political campaigns in recent democracies, as well as their main features in terms of political communication. This article aims to tackle these issues by examining the Portuguese ca…
All Quiet on the European Front? Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on Euroscepticism in Portugal
During the Great Recession, radical left parties in Portugal intensified their opposition to Europe and public opinion became increasingly eurosceptic. Nevertheless, the cooperation among leftist parties following the 2015 elections, which brought eurosceptic parties into power, coincided with a rise in positive attitudes towards the EU. This paper aims to explain this puzzle by examining party stances and citizens’ views on Europe before and aft…
Assessing the Impact of Age, Cohort and Period Effects on Partisanship and Support for Mainstream Parties
The article examines the link between time effects and dealignment in Southern European countries, which allows us to assess the relative importance of short- and long-term factors on the political instability of the region during the Eurocrisis. First, we analyse life cycle, cohort and period effects on partisan identities across countries. Second, we investigate to what extent time-related factors have been responsible for the erosion of the vo…
Party innovation, hybridization and the crisis
The literature on populist parties has tended to look at this new phenomenon as distinct from traditional party models. While there are a number of studies focusing on specific dimensions, there have been few attempts to systematically examine the features of these new players through the eyes of distinct party types. This work uses the case of Podemos to highlight what distinguished this new party from mainstream parties. We consider the followi…
Intra-party democracy from members’ viewpoint
Contextual reasons for emigrants’ electoral participation in home country elections
Although emigrants represent an increasing share of the electoral population in many democracies, not much is known about their participation in home country elections. With the purpose of contributing to fill such gap, this article develops a longitudinal and exploratory analysis of the contextual factors of emigrants’ participation in national elections in the case of Portugal (1976–2015), a country with one of the highest emigration rates of t…
The impact of endorsements in intra-party elections
What affects the prospects of candidates in open intra-party elections? This research article examines the determinants of candidate performance in the first open party primaries conducted by LIVRE, a newly emerged Portuguese party, in 2015. This innovative process of candidate selection allowed individuals from outside the party not only to vote but also to run for office. Through the construction of an original dataset and the use of social net…
Campaign Individualisation before and after the Bailout
Published online: 13 December 2014
The ‘Lost Generation’ and Its Political Discontents
Although public discussion about the economic crisis of the late 2000s to mid-2010s in Southern Europe often refers to its impact on the region’s younger citizens, not enough attention has been given to the political consequences of the crisis on the young. Focusing on the cases of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, this introduction to the special issue on age-related rifts in post-crisis Southern Europe offers an overview of the contributions a…
Partisanship and age effects in recent democracies
Conceptualising and Measuring Leadership Autonomy in Contemporary Party Organisations
At a time when party politics is becoming increasingly personalised, conventional wisdom argues that the party leaders’ power in organisations is on the rise. However, scholarship has not yet provided a thorough and systematic analysis of the role of party leaders that offers theoretical and empirical specification. The aim of this article is to provide an analytical framework for the study of party leadership by examining the concept of leadersh…
Party–group interactions in Southern Europe
Despite the development of empirical research on the relations between parties and interest groups, the topic is still understudied and presents several shortcomings. On the one hand, this relationship has been studied mostly from the political parties' point of view. On the other, there is a lack of consensus regarding the determinants of party–group connection. This study aims to advance our knowledge on the topic by examining the relationship …
Party Membership and Activism in a New Democracy
While the analysis of party models and types of party members has been widely discussed at the theoretical level, empirical research has not attracted similar attention. This study contributes to filling this gap by examining an understudied case, namely party members in Portuguese political parties. The key objective of this article is to make a contribution to the study of activism and dedication to the party, in a comparative perceptive, consi…
Age, period and cohort effects in a dealigned electorate
Whereas many advanced democracies experience a long‐term process of dealignment, the impact of age, period and cohort on late deciders and vote switchers is still unclear. In addition, extant research fails to systematically examine the determinants that account for the time of vote decision compared to explanations of vote change at the individual level. Drawing on pooled data that include election surveys for Portuguese legislative elections he…
The Importance of Winning Office
This work analyses the main dimensions of change and continuity of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) from 1976 to 2005. It will be argued that since the mid-1980s the socialist competitive strategy has remained substantially unchanged, whereas organization and political campaigning have undergone important transformations
Construir o futuro
a diferentes experincias histricas ; por outro, temos a tradio dos estudos de caso que se debruam sobre eventos particulares para elaborar ou verificar hipteses e teorias
The Renewal of the Socialist Majority
Campaign Effects in a Changing Environment
Studies on elections and voting behavior have generally shown that campaigns display only a minimal effect, while predispositions are found to play a fundamental role in influencing voters' preferences. This paper aims to re-evaluate these findings by analyzing campaign effects through a panel survey conducted during the 2006 Italian elections. This case study is particularly interesting due to the changes in the political and media environment t…
Political Equality and the Process of Candidate Selection
There has been an increasing concern in contemporary democracies about political equality and descriptive representation. But to what extent do MPs consider legitimate the selection of candidates according to their social background? Drawing on the PARENEL project data, our results indicate that age and gender are the two most legitimate criteria from the MPs' normative view. Yet there are significant differences among countries and political par…
The professionalization of campaigns in recent democracies
The fact that political campaigns in contemporary western democracies are fully professionalized seems to be unchallenged. Yet, the empirical evidence concerns few advanced democracies and mainly the main governing parties. We know little about the characteristics of political campaigns in recent democracies, as well as their main features in terms of political communication. This article aims to tackle these issues by examining the Portuguese ca…
Rediscovering Civil Society? Renewal and Continuity in the Portuguese Radical Left
The importance of party organisational models to party-civil-society relations has been substantially overlooked in the scholarly literature. Drawing on the Portuguese case, this study examines to what extent radical left parties have established different links with civil society, namely by allying with social movements and trade unions. Our findings confirm that party organisational models significantly shape the relationship between the radica…
Changing to Stay the Same? The Evolution of Southern Europe's Political Systems
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarco LisiMarco Lisi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Nova University of Lisbon. He works on political parties, party systems, political behaviour, electoral campaigns and democratic representation. He has published in West European Politics, European Journal of Communication and International Political Science Review, among others
Zippin’ up My Boots, Goin’ Back to My Roots
Radical left parties actively encourage the participation of their members in internal decision-making and insist on promoting organised links to trade unions and social movements. As a party family, they deviate from what is considered to be the trend in which Western political parties have turned their backs on their social roots. Drawing on the experience of South European radical left parties from the fall of the Berlin Wall until the recent …
Partisanship and age effects in recent democracies
Political Representation in Bailed-out Southern Europe
The emergence of the economic and financial crisis has already shown important electoral and political consequences in southern Europe. Drawing on the experience of two bailed-out countries, Greece and Portugal, we use original data collected before and after 2008 to examine how patterns of political representation have changed during this period. We argue that austerity measures have significantly affected the way MPs represent their electorates…
The sources of mass partisanship in newer democracies
This study seeks to improve the current conceptualisation of partisanship and to provide empirical evidence about the nature of partisan identities in new democracies. Conventional theories suggest that partisan loyalties are grounded in social and group contexts, while ‘revisionist’ theories have emphasised the importance of the performance evaluations of political actors. This study argues that the nature of partisanship in newer democracies is…
Campaign Individualisation before and after the Bailout
Published online: 13 December 2014
The Changing Determinants of the Vote
This chapter presents a unique opportunity to evaluate the importance of leaders across a wider range of social and political contexts. It explores the determinants of the vote in two different rounds of analysis. The chapter examines the impact on voting choice of the conventional set of explanatory factors: long-term socio-demographic, attitudinal orientations (ideological orientation and party identification) and short-term campaign-specific f…
Political Representation in Times of Bailout
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? External Voting and the Political Representation of Portuguese Emigrants
Over recent decades, emigrants have gained expanded voting rights on a global scale. Despite the normative debates about this issue, there are few empirical studies on why states decide to implement external voting and how electoral systems perform. This article seeks to fill this gap by looking at the Portuguese case. Our study suggests that a combination of political and socio-economic factors explains the implementation of external voting. On …
Political parties, citizens and the economic crisis
Moderate, pragmatic and personalised
This article seeks to examine the development of the main left-wing government parties in Southern Europe. In spite of the different party systems, these parties have had to adapt to the challenges of transforming their support bases and to electoral competition. To analyse the different histories of the governing left in Spain, Greece, Italy and Portugal, three dimensions are taken into account: the ideological development, the characteristics o…
U-Turn
The 2015 legislative elections in Portugal led to a major shift in the characteristics of the party system through the formation of a socialist minority government supported by the Left Block and the Portuguese Communist Party. This study examines the trajectory of the radical left in Portugal since the implementation of the 2011 EU–International Monetary Fund bailout and analyses the possible reasons for the parties becoming coalition partners. …
Political Representation in Times of Bailout
1. Political Representation in Bailed-out Southern Europe: Greece and Portugal Compared Andre Freire, Marco Lisi, Ioannis Andreadis and Jose Manuel Leite Viegas 2. Representation and Austerity Politics: Attitudes of Greek Voters and Elites Compared Georgios Karyotis, Wolfgang Rudig and David Judge 3. Elites' and Voters' Attitudes towards Austerity Policies and their Consequences in Greece and Portugal Eftichia Teperoglou, Andre Freire, Ioannis An…
Contextual reasons for emigrants’ electoral participation in home country elections
Although emigrants represent an increasing share of the electoral population in many democracies, not much is known about their participation in home country elections. With the purpose of contributing to fill such gap, this article develops a longitudinal and exploratory analysis of the contextual factors of emigrants’ participation in national elections in the case of Portugal (1976–2015), a country with one of the highest emigration rates of t…
The impact of endorsements in intra-party elections
What affects the prospects of candidates in open intra-party elections? This research article examines the determinants of candidate performance in the first open party primaries conducted by LIVRE, a newly emerged Portuguese party, in 2015. This innovative process of candidate selection allowed individuals from outside the party not only to vote but also to run for office. Through the construction of an original dataset and the use of social net…
Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy
Party-group relations in new southern European democracies in the crisis era
The relationship between parties and interest group has been at the core of the evolution of party types (Allern & Bale, 2012; Duverger, 1972; Panebianco, 1988). It is widely agreed that both parti
Intra-party democracy from members’ viewpoint
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