The prospects of the Greek economy are mostly good with growth continuing for the fourth straight year. But there is a sense of disappointment, as the recovery has not been very strong and pre-crisis income levels will not be regained for another decade. There are two main reasons for the sluggish recovery: The European creditors […]
Professor Dimitri Sotiropoulos, Senior Research Fellow of ELIAMEP, wrote a blog post regarding the first results of the programme DEMOS (Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe). As the DEMOS co-investigator mentions in his post: “Even if populists claim to authentically represent the people, in practice, once in government, they implement strategies supporting only […]
Dr. Filippa Chatzistavrou, Research Fellow at ELIAMEP published in May a chapter in the edited volume Representative democracy in the EU, Recovering Legitimacy , Volume II, Rowman & Littlefield International. Dr. Chatzistavrou’s chapter, which was written with the contribution to the research by Konstantinos Papanikolaou, Junior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, is entitled “Greek parliamentary democracy as a post-representative regime: […]
Dr. Filippa Chatzistavrou, Researcher at ELIAMEP, published the chapter entitled “Mobilizing for Democracy during Austerity in Greece” in Blockmans & Russack (eds), “Direct Democracy in the EU and the Myth of a Citizens Union, Volume I, Rowman & Littlefield International, January 2019. The book will be available in hard copy in January 2018 here.
“Having done away with the most extreme versions of populism, Greece’s foremost challenges remain economic… Achieving stronger economic growth is key. In the medium and longer term, Greece needs to continue, consolidate and expand the reforms that will allow it to complete the shift to a greater reliance on the tradable (as opposed to the […]
On most international assessments Greece’s democracy today seems to perform in a disappointing way, without explaining the reasons of and mechanisms behind that score. This paper argues that the rather low quality of Greek democracy is not and should not be associated exclusively with the on-going economic crisis. It should be traced to past legacies […]