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dc.contributor.authorPAPPAS, Takis S.
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-07T13:05:04Z
dc.date.available2014-07-07T13:05:04Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014en
dc.identifier.isbn9781137410573
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/31982
dc.description.abstractThe 1970's witnessed the institution of political liberalism in Greece, which went hand in hand with significant social and economic advancement. Four decades later, the same country is a latter-day 'sick man of Europe'. What went wrong? And why did the more recent global crisis plunge Greece into abject misery? This study provides compelling and original answers to these questions through putting populism at center stage. By introducing new concepts, focusing on micro-mechanisms, and empirically analyzing a large variety of sources, the author shows how populism became predominant in Greek politics and contaminated all major political parties, eventually causing a major polity crisis. Besides its particular interest in the specific case of Greece, the text offers new insights about how states may fail, how populism develops at single-nation level, and what could happen when it reigns supreme. It also makes a strong statement about the corrosive power of populism on modern liberal democracy.en
dc.description.tableofcontents• Introduction • PART I: POPULIST DEMOCRACY • Fledgling Liberalism • Populism Ascendant • Popular Sovereignty • Biased Beliefs • Profile: Conservative Entrepreneur • PART II: COGS AND WHEELS • Patronage Politics • Polarized Bipartism • Why Reforms Failed? • Profile: Unprincipled Socialist • PART III. LEGITIMATION CRISIS • Economic Crisis • Social Discord • Features of Unrest • Modern Luddites • Profile: Leftist Peddler • PART IV: PARTY SYSTEM CHANGE • Critical Elections • Anti-system Voting • Loss Aversion • Profile: Stubborn Reformist • PART V: LESSONS FROM GREECE • Embattled Democracyen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen
dc.titlePopulism and crisis politics in Greeceen
dc.typeBooken
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