Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America. Before and After the Great Recession and the Commodity Crisis (2020), by André Freire, Mélany Barragán, Xavier Coller, Marco Lisi, and Emmanouil Tsatsanis (editors)

Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America (2020) examines how severe economic crises, such as the Great Recession and the commodity price crisis, affect political representation. The book adopts a comparative research design, focusing on Southern Europe, impacted by the 2008 global recession, and Latin America, touched by the 2014 commodity price crisis. Edited by André Freire, Mélany Barragán, Xavier Coller, Marco Lisi, and Emmanouil Tsatsanis, the volume brings together contributions from scholars specializing in these regions. The book addresses three key research questions: support for the political system, descriptive representation, and substantive representation (congruence). Utilizing a small-N comparative approach, the study includes four Southern European and three Latin American countries. The research integrates secondary data analyses with new original data, offering insights into the impact of economic shocks on political systems and representation in these diverse regions.