Portuguese Emigrants’ Political Representation: The Challenges of the External Vote

Marco  Lisi; Ana Maria Belchior; Manuel Abrantes; Joana Azevedo

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Portuguese Emigrants’ Political Representation: The Challenges of the External Vote

Marco Lisi, Ana Maria Belchior, Manuel Abrantes, Joana Azevedo

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Over the last few decades, emigrants all over the world have gained expanded voting rights. 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 chapter 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 implementa tion of external voting. On the other hand, the interests of political parties and the low level of civil society engagement are key factors in the failure of both electoral reforms and attempts to overcome the shortcomings of external voting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration
Editors	C Pereira, J Azevedo
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	4
Pages	73-94
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-15134-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-15133-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15134-8_4
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2019

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Portuguese Emigrants’ Political Representation : The Challenges of the External Vote. / Lisi, Marco ; Belchior, Ana Maria; Abrantes, Manuel; Azevedo, Joana.

New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration. ed. / C Pereira; J Azevedo. Cham : Springer, 2019. p. 73-94 (IMISCOE Research Series).

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