Matsaganis, M. & Leventi, C. (2014) “Poverty and Inequality during the Great Recession in Greece“. Political Studies Review, 12: 209–223. The severe economic crisis that has been affecting Greece since 2009 is having an unprecedented impact in terms of job and income losses, and is widely perceived to have a comparably significant effect in terms of greater inequality and increased poverty. This article provides an early assessment of whether (and …Read More
Southern Europe is suspicious: the evolution of trust in the EU
Bowles, J. (2014) “Southern Europe is suspicious: the evolution of trust in the EU“, Bruegel Think Tank, 14 May. Analysis of the eurozone crisis and its consequences has started to consider its social, as well as political and economic, dimensions. Bruegel analysis, for example, has considered distributional challenges, effects on poverty levels, social security systems, and changes in confidence towards political institutions. Academic economic research into the significance of …Read More
Living Parallel Lives: Italy and Greece in an Age of Austerity
Bosco, A. & Verney, S. (2013) “Living Parallel Lives: Italy and Greece in an Age of Austerity“, South European Society and Politics, Vol. 18, Issue 4, Available online: 12 February 2014. The economic crisis has triggered a process of political convergence between Italy and Greece. The simultaneous downfall of the Italian and Greek governments, following the public withdrawal of European confidence in their ability to handle the crisis, was …Read More
Europe’s Underappreciated Success: 10 Years Of Post-Enlargement Convergence
Watt, A. (2014) “Europe’s Underappreciated Success: 10 Years Of Post-Enlargement Convergence“, Social Europe Journal, 05 May. On May 1st 2004 ten countries joined the EU in the biggest enlargement of the Union to date. Moreover it was a step heavy with symbolism. Eight of the ten – the exceptions being the two Mediterranean island economies Cyprus and Malta – had until just over a decade earlier been part of …Read More
Party Attitudes towards the EU in Greece
Verney, S. & Michalaki, S., “Greece”, in Conti, N. (ed.) (2014) “Party Attitudes towards the EU in the Member States – Parties for Europe, Parties against Europe“, Routledge Advances in European Politics, Routledge Publications: United Kingdom. Between the Maastricht Treaty and the eurozone crisis, the central question in the Greek European debate was no longer ‘to be or not to be in the EU’ but ‘what kind of Europe’. The analysis …Read More
European Discourses on managing the Greek crisis: denial, distancing and blaming
Papadimitriou, D. & Zartaloudis, S. (2014) “European Discourses on managing the Greek crisis: denial, distancing and blaming”, Political Studies Association, 23 April. Since the outbreak of the Eurozone crisis much attention has focused on the deficiencies of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its effects on member states’ politics. Here we present some key findings of an ongoing research project which tries to examine an often neglected aspect of …Read More
Broken and Can’t be Fixed’: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Greek Party System
Verney, S. (2014) “Broken and Can’t be Fixed’: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Greek Party System”, The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2014 The Greek election of May 2012 failed to produce a government, resulting in repeat elections six weeks later. This shock outcome was a symptom of a broader delegitimation of the national political system. Over the past decade …Read More
If Scotland, why not Greece?
Varoufakis, Y. (2014) “If Scotland, why not Greece?“, Yannis Varoufakis Thoughts for the post-2008 World, 10 March Why an independent Scotland should get out of sterling, but Greece should not volunteer to exit the Eurozone Scotland should state its intention to decouple from sterling, once independent, rather than petitioning for a continuation of its subservient role in an asymmetrical sterling union. Or so I argued in the Scottish Times in ‘Scotland …Read More
Greece in Crisis: Austerity, Populism and the Politics of Blame. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
Vasilopoulou, S., Halikiopoulou, D. and Exadaktylos, T. (2014), “Greece in Crisis: Austerity, Populism and the Politics of Blame. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies”, 52: 388–402. Within the broader debate on the Greek crisis, the theory of ‘populist democracy’ postulates that populism is fundamental to the sustenance of the Greek political system and is at the heart of Greece’s endemic domestic weaknesses. This article tests this assumption empirically through the …Read More
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A Critical Perspective on Economy, Modernity and Temporality in Contemporary Greece through the Prism of Energy Practice
Knight, D., (2014), “A Critical Perspective on Economy, Modernity and Temporality in Contemporary Greece through the Prism of Energy Practice”, Hellenic Observatory GreeSE Paper, N.81. During the Greek economic crisis a focus on energy practice highlights the temporal complexities of local coping strategies. Re-launched in 2011, the European Union supported solar energy initiative encourages installation of futuristic, high-tech photovoltaic panels on fertile agricultural land. Entangled with intricate notions of neo-colonialism …Read More
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