Liberalism and the Formation of the Nation-State

Andreopoulos, George

doi:10.1353/mgs.2010.0284

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“…What divided the two groups was not class appeals but different logics of articulating and addressing social interests. Contrary to the Venizelist conception of class interests that were to be tackled differentially (Andreopoulos, 1989), the anti-Venizelists put forth the vision of strata organically linked in the traditional artisan shop, where owners and employees – the undifferentiated ‘people’ – worked side-by-side. This appealed particularly to sub-sections of the petit bourgeoisie who fretted modernization (Mavrogordatos, 2015: 266–267; Potamianos, 2015: 399).…”

Section: Theoretical Implications Of the Greek Casementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is then an analogy between 1843–1844 and the aftermath of 1909. In both cases mass-popular mobilization expressed dissatisfaction among all social groups with the state’s tentative and uneven efforts (and failures) to modernize (Andreopoulos, 1989: 199). These generalized populist ruptures contained multiple visions of change (Potamianos, 2004).…”

Section: Historical Legacies Of Populism In Greecementioning

confidence: 99%

“…With irredentism, the Greek state discovered a powerful justification for modernization in the 19th century. Irredentism bridged or fragmented social demands and allowed the state to put through a far-reaching nation-building programme (Andreopoulos, 1989: 198; Kitromilides, 1989: 159–168). Irredentism was sharpened with Venizelism, where the universalism of bourgeois modernity became entangled with the universalism of an economically vibrant Hellenism.…”

Section: Historical Legacies Of Populism In Greecementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Eleftherios Venizelos represented the most coherent combination of the universality of modernization and of Greek irredentism (Andreopoulos, 1989). Venizelism's potency however also engendered a virulent reaction.…”

Section: Rupturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The people in the ‘here and now’: Populism, modernization and the state in Greece

Chryssogelos

2017

International Political Science Review

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Abstract:The term 'populism' has gained renewed prominence in Greece during the Eurozone crisis, in both public and academic debates. In this article I conceptualize populism as a discourse of territorial and temporal particularism, which challenges the way a state has been incorporated into the international political and economic system. Based on this definition, I question whether oppositional discourses employed by partisan actors or official power are wholesale and genuine expressions of populism. Thus, Icontest the notion that Greece failed due to populism. Instead I draw attention to a failure in the official legitimation of modernization by state elites that long preceded the crisis.

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The Messiah and the bourgeoisie: Venizelos and politics in Greece, 1909–1912

Mazower

1992

Hist. J.

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The mercurial rise of Venizelos, the most prominent Greek statesman of this century, has been a hotly debated issue of modern Greek history. The tendency until recently has been to explain his success in terms of social changes, and to see the rise of the Liberal party as the triumph of modernizing bourgeois forces in early twentieth-century Greece. This article, however, compares Venizelos both with the generation of politicians which preceded him, and with his leading contemporary, Gounaris. It argues that Venizelos's enormous popularity hinged upon his response to the nationalist, quasi-messianicfervour which gripped Greece after its humiliating defeat by Turkey in 1897. Parliamentary government came to be seen as passive and elitist, political parties as causes of national decline. Using his rhetorical skills and the press, Venizelos presented himself as the agent of national regeneration. His attitude towards class politics, and to the very idea of political parties, was complex and ambivalent. Hence, his rise should be interpreted, not in terms of a simple Marxist or whiggish schema, as the product of Greece's bourgeois revolution, but as the expression of a new more confident nationalism, which reinforced the personality-centred quality of Greek politics.

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Liberalism and the Formation of the Nation-State

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The people in the ‘here and now’: Populism, modernization and the state in Greece

The people in the ‘here and now’: Populism, modernization and the state in Greece

The Messiah and the bourgeoisie: Venizelos and politics in Greece, 1909–1912

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