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- Provides the first book-length academic study of SYRIZA in the context of the Greek economic crisis
- Offers a coherent interpretation of recent Greek politics and the reasons for SYRIZA’s failure
- Written in a lively and accessible writing style which will appeal to a broad audience
Part of the book series: Reform and Transition in the Mediterranean (RTM)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book studies the rollercoaster first year in office of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which for many Europeans constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism. Through a collection of sharp and short articles and interviews that critically chronicle the rapid rise of SYRIZA, the author argues that SYRIZA is not so much a new European phenomenon, but rather a rejuvenated form of an old Greek phenomenon, left populism, which overpromises and seldom delivers. By putting the phenomenon of SYRIZA within a broader Greek and European context, in which political extremism and populism are increasingly threatening liberal democracy, Mudde argues that Greece is neither a new Weimar Germany nor the future of Europe. As SYRIZA has failed to bring the change it promised, the only remaining question now is whether it can establish itself in the Greek party system. This book will be of use to students and scholars interested in Greek politics, comparative politics, populism, and extremism.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Cas Mudde
About the author
Cas Mudde is Associate Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia, USA, and Researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is a leading expert on the far right and populism in Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: SYRIZA
Book Subtitle: The Failure of the Populist Promise
Authors: Cas Mudde
Series Title: Reform and Transition in the Mediterranean
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47479-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47478-6Published: 23 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83746-8Published: 29 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47479-3Published: 14 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-641X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6428
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 98
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Comparative Politics, International Political Economy, European Culture