Abstract
In this paper the author deals with the specific structures of the Portuguese labour market in order to account for the impact of unemployment on electoral behaviour. The low weight of wages in family incomes, the regional disparities in wage labour and the multi-job tradition in Portuguese society are examined to explain social attitudes towards unemployment. These features are shown to constrain the resistance that the working classes might have otherwise opposed to unemployment. In conclusion, the author argues that unemployment had a limited impact on the electorate's behaviour as part and parcel of the recessive economic climate' prevailing at the time of the 1985 and 1995 general elections
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