Governmentality and coalition dynamics
by Michel Foucault’s ‘governmentality’ concept has to do with the overarching ‘problem of government’ – that is, ‘how to govern oneself, how to be governed, by …
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How to be [centre] right
Opinion polls present provisional president Evangelos Meimarakis as a frontrunner, followed by Apostolos Tzitzikostas and Kyriakos Mitsotakis who are fighting a close battle. However, last minute surprises should not be dismissed as a possibility.
10 things government should do to survive
During the pre-election period, Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA rhetoric claimed for the development of a ‘parallel’ government programme that would run simultaneously with the implementation of the bailout agreement.
National Elections 2015b: Alexis T. and the youth
Alexis Tsipras (not SYRIZA) is credited with the election success. His personal appeal has climaxed in the Referendum (61.3%) to be severely tested in the …
Everyday politics; the Voter
It is not unusual for Greeks to consider elections always around the corner. It is not only in their nature to view politics as a …
Which way to the political centre?
Not so long time ago, a rule was used to measure voters’ trends in Greek politics. pinion poll participants were called to answer as to …
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‘Nea Ellada’ [New Greece]
It was right after the latest update of the bailout agreement between Greece and its lenders, when PM Antonis Samaras introduced the term ‘Nea Ellada’ …
Ideology: vested interests or psychodrama?
I think it is clear that in the last few years most Greeks have walked away from the stereotypes of domestic politics: post-junta period, right, left, far-right, extreme-left, etc., seem fragments of a bygone rhetoric, regardless if they are spoken by contemporary people, who continue to dominate the Greek political scene.
What Alexis Tsipras knows
For people to gain from political competition, common sense dictates that new ‘Tsiprases’ should appear to reposition Greek politics -hopefully closer to Europe- and move the country forward. But the process is going to be bloody.