The January 2015 Parliamentary Election in Greece: Government Change, Partial Punishment and Hesitant Stabilisation

Tsirbas, Yannis

doi:10.1080/13608746.2015.1088428

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“…Each of the five South European national parliamentary elections that took place in is covered in detail in an article in this volume (Tsirbas 2016 . The aim of this section is not to repeat the details of the individual contests that feature in these articles.…”

Section: The Advance Of the Electoral Epidemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Electoral Epidemic to Government Epidemic: The Next Level of the Crisis in Southern Europe

Bosco

Verney

2016

South European Society and Politics

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Section: The Advance Of the Electoral Epidemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Electoral Epidemic to Government Epidemic: The Next Level of the Crisis in Southern Europe

Bosco

Verney

2016

South European Society and Politics

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“…After six consecutive years of negative growth, with a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) lost, citizens were faced with a decision that suggested more of the same in the case of a ‘Yes’ vote. While voters placed a large part of the responsibility for the crisis on national political elites (Kosmidis, 2014; Tsirbas, 2016), for a large majority the lasting austerity policies were mainly driven by Greece’s international creditors (Rüdig and Karyotis, 2013). This referendum was a unique opportunity for voters to ‘punish’, however ineffectively, those responsible for their current plight.…”

Section: Voting In Referendums and The Greek Casementioning

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Economic downturns and the Greek referendum of 2015: Evidence using night-time light data

Xezonakis

Hartmann

2020

European Union Politics

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Much like Brexit, the Greek bailout referendum of 2015 could have been a watershed event that significantly affected the European Economic and Monetary Union and possibly the European Union as a whole. While the referendum did not live up to the hype, the fact remains that the Greek people decided to risk ‘exit’ and reject their international creditors’ bailout terms. In this article, we explore how the cycle of sovereign debt crisis, the externally imposed austerity and the resulting recession affected the outcome of that referendum. We further provide a limited test for the ‘left-behind’ hypothesis, which has been a prominent explanation for recent ‘unexpected’ or ‘surprising’ choices that have been made at the polls. Using municipality data and novel data sources, such as night-time light transmission, we provide aggregate-level support for our expectations.

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“…In January 2015, SYRIZA formed a government in collaboration with Independent Greeks (ANEL), a small anti-Memorandum party of the far right. SYRIZA represented a retrospective economic vote which rejected the adjustment programme, without any radical questioning of Greece's position in the EU (Tsirbas 2015). It also expressed an anti-Memorandum vote overlapping with rejection of the ‘old’ political system (Hutter et al 2018).…”

Section: Greece: Polarized Enemies Realist Brothers?mentioning

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‘Bridges Over Troubled Waters’? The Competitive Symbiosis of Social Democracy and Radical Left in Crisis-Ridden Southern Europe

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During the economic crisis, the radical left, especially in countries of the European South, continued its course from marginality to mainstream while social democracy found itself trapped in its previous strategic orientations. This article examines the two political families in a relational and comparative perspective, focusing on the interaction of social democratic and radical left parties that evolved in a series of national cases (Greece, Portugal, Spain and France) and in particular within the political and electoral cycle of 2015–17. The ideological, programmatic and strategic responses of these parties to the critical juncture of the crisis, which mark a convergence or deviation in the paths of the two ‘enemy brothers', shed light on their political and ideological mutations, transformations and/or adaptations.

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The January 2015 Parliamentary Election in Greece: Government Change, Partial Punishment and Hesitant Stabilisation

Cited by 28 publications

References 23 publications

From Electoral Epidemic to Government Epidemic: The Next Level of the Crisis in Southern Europe

From Electoral Epidemic to Government Epidemic: The Next Level of the Crisis in Southern Europe

Economic downturns and the Greek referendum of 2015: Evidence using night-time light data

‘Bridges Over Troubled Waters’? The Competitive Symbiosis of Social Democracy and Radical Left in Crisis-Ridden Southern Europe

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