https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:48:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/civil-compliance-and-political-luddism-explaining-variance-in-social-unrest-during-crisis-in-ireland-and-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:29 +0000 http://arc.local/items/civil-compliance-and-political-luddism-explaining-variance-in-social-unrest-during-crisis-in-ireland-and-greece/ Continued]]> When badly hit by the same global financial and economic crisis in the early 2000s, the Irish and the Greek societies reacted in quite different ways. Whereas Ireland remained largely acquiescent and displayed a high degree of civil compliance, Greeks took massively to the streets using violence and attacking specifically the state and the state personnel, a phenomenon we refer to as “political Luddism.” It is shown that the two countries are quite similar in terms of their economic condition, cultural background, social composition, ideological profiling, and party system dynamics, among other factors. What, then, explains the two countries’ dissimilar reactions to crisis? Through a detailed analysis of the cases, the article offers evidence that the most compelling explanation relates to the varying ability of the Greek and Irish states to continue providing basic public goods and other state-related services to their respective societies.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/populism-and-crisis-politics-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:28 +0000 http://arc.local/items/populism-and-crisis-politics-in-greece/ Exploring the negative effects of populism, this study presents an original explanation of Greece’s current political and economic failures. It argues that the sovereign debt crisis only exacerbated the malfunctioning of a democracy long ago contaminated by populist politics while also offering a more general insight into the impact of populism

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/why-greece-failed/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:21 +0000 http://arc.local/items/why-greece-failed/ Continued]]> Seeking to offer a unified theory about Greece’s current political and economic crisis, this article unravels the particular mechanisms through which this country developed as a populist democracy, that is, a pluralist system in which both the government and the opposition parties turn populist. It furthermore shows how this democracy facilitated the political class and the vast majority in Greek society to achieve and maintain for several decades an admirably high coordination of aims enabling them to exploit the state and its resources. Seen within the theoretical framework proposed, Greece offers policy-oriented scholars crucial insights into what may go badly wrong in developed Western democracies.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/south-european-atlas-winning-by-default-the-greek-election-of-2009/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:08 +0000 http://arc.local/items/south-european-atlas-winning-by-default-the-greek-election-of-2009/ Continued]]> Despite its landslide in the 2009 national election, the victory of the Panhellenic Socialist Movemen (PASOK) was not so much the outcome of its own electoral ascendancy as a result of the precipitous fall of New Democracy (ND). That election, moreover, signified the stagnation of the Greek party system, which has become manifest particularly in three areas: the lack of enthusiasm for PASOK’s new government; the great difficulty of ND in modernising its party structure and ideology; and the persistence of two-partyism

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