C. Jalali’s scientific contributions

... The latter situation usefully describes the cases of Portugal, Estonia and Latvia. In Portugal, it is known that during the early years of the democratic regime the divide between the defenders of a Western-style democracy (socialists, liberals and conservatives d PS, Socialist Party, PSD, Social Democratic Party e a liberal/conservative party, and CDS, Social and Democratic Centre e Popular Party, a conservative party) and those proposing other models of democracy ('popular democracy' in the socialist style was defended by communists and other radical left parties) got more salience than the left-right divide (Jalali, 2007), and this has had lasting consequences in Portuguese politics (Freire and Belchior, 2011). In Estonia and Latvia, the prominence of ethnic division vis-a-vis socio-economic issues during the first years of the new regimes can be said to have blurred the clarity and encompassing capacity of the left-right divide (Duvold and Jurkynas, 2003: p. 139). ...

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Regime transition, value conflicts and the left-right divide at the mass level: The Baltic States and Southern Europe compared