It is well-established that voters behave very differently in European Parliament (EP) elections compared to national elections. They are more likely to switch their allegiances to smaller opposition parties or even to abstain. The classic explanation is that these changing patterns of behavior...

The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to investigate whether and to what extent the two major parties in Greece, ND and PASOK, are market-oriented, and (2) to examine how effectively the two existing political market orientationmodels can explain the Greek reality. These models,...