Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Countries

Accepting Austerity or Grexit? Predicting Acceptance of Crisis Solution Strategies from People’s image of the Greece-Eu Relationship, their own Position and Norms of Justice

“…The third factor (eigenvalue 1.49 and variance 13.55%) included the items "Leaving the Eurozone voluntarily" (.830) and "Refuse to pay the debt" (.798) which represent the Grexit rationale (r = . 42) as a conflictual and extreme response to the economic crisis and its management imposed by the dominant international forces (see also Papastamou et al, 2018;and Mari et al, 2017). Table 1 presents descriptive statistics and correlations among variables used in the analysis.…”

“…Two types of images have been taken into consideration: a positive image (a relationship of cooperation, consensus, respect, equality, solidarity and trust) corresponding to procedural considerations and an image of submission versus domination corresponding to a powerful EU position. Like in Papastamou et al 2018 andMari et al 2017, three management strategies emerged: a strategy that proposed the measures of austerity named "conforming to EU request", a strategy that focused on the public sector named "rationalization of the public sector" and a strategy of exiting the EU, here, Grexit. Our findings indicate that the two first strategies were positively correlated together, and therefore of a similar ideological underpinning, and were negatively correlated with the strategy of Grexit.…”

“…The instrument was consisted of eleven items representing policies and measures that countries that found themselves in a debt crisis should follow (see also Papastamou et al, 2018). Examples: "Implement rigorously austerity measures in relation to salaries and pensions", "Reduce bureaucracy to attract private investment", "Leaving the Eurozone voluntarily".…”

Predictors of the Perceived Efficacy of Actions Against Austerity Measures

“…Because of the importance of these representations in understanding citizens' reactions to the situation created by the financial and economic crisis, authors from various domains became interested in knowing what opinions had been formed on the crisis in several countries or social groups (Papastamou et al, 2018), and some studies have already been undertaken in the theoretical framework of social representations.…”

The Crisis Tsunami. Social Representations of the Economic Crisis in the Italian Press

“…In the face of this spreading global crisis, several authors set out to investigate its implications from a socio-psychological viewpoint (see, e.g., Mari et al, 2017;Lemoine et al, 2017;Papastamou et al, 2018;Poeschl et al, 2017). Specifically referring to the Greek context, some have focused on the reaction of Greek people to the crisis, considering socio-psychological aspects, such as the sense of grievances and feelings of vulnerability and the emotions they felt towards the crisis (Chryssochoou, Papastamou & Prodromitis, 2013;) and on its consequences on the country's health care (Kondilis et al, 2013).…”