The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns

Boukala, Salomi; Dimitrakopoulou, Dimitra

doi:10.1080/17405904.2016.1182933

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“…References to hope research can also be found in sociology (e.g., Jarymowicz and Bar-Tal 2006;Cohen-Chen, 2014;Petersen and Wilkinson, 2015), economics (e.g. Foster et al 2012;Frijters et al 2012;Foster and Frijters 2014;Lybbert and Wydick 2018) philosophy (Webb 2007;Martin 2011), and political science (Bar-Tal 2001;Drahos 2004;Cohen-Chen et al 2013;Sleat 2013;Boukala and Dimitrakopoulou 2016), although there are clear differences in the research methodology and definitions used. Specifically, many studies in these fields focus more on expectations of improvement or deterioration of the economic, social or personal situation of a country or individual.…”

Section: Hopementioning

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The Relations between Hope and Subjective Well-Being: a Literature Overview and Empirical Analysis

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How we perceive the future can greatly affect how we feel in the present. Even a currently positive situation is hard to bear when we know the future will be grim. Indeed, previous research has found that more hopeful people are happier. However, both hope and subjective well-being are multidimensional concepts comprising emotion (i.e., anticipation and affect), cognition (expectation and satisfaction) and, to some degree, motivation. Since most studies include only one dimension of hope and subjective well-being, little is known about how different aspects of hope relate to different aspects of subjective well-being. This study aims to gain insight into these relationships by providing an overview of the existing empirical literature on hope and subjective well-being. Subsequently, cross-sectional data of a representative sample of the American population are used to further examine the relationship between hope and subjective well-being. Our findings from both the literature and our empirical analysis show that positive expectations are only weakly associated with all domains of subjective well-being, whereas cognitive and emotional hope are most strongly related to subjective well-being. This finding indicates that the more passive characteristics of positive expectations have less of an impact on subjective well-being than a more agentic hopeful disposition.

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Section: Hopementioning

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“…The Greek vote demonstrated the same lesson as in the UK vote: electors could not be cowed into voting out of fear to accept the current EU system as their inescapable destiny (Boukala & Dimitrakopoulou 2016). Greeks, Brits and others have sought to express the right to be unhappy with the results that lie behind grandiloquent evocations of European unity and prosperity.…”

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Brexit and Beyond

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For our families -British and European alike vii AcknowledgementsThis book would never have seen the light of day without the assistance, support and advice offered to us by our colleagues and friends at UCL and UCL Press.Our colleagues at the UCL European Institute offered help and advice from the moment we started working on the project. In particular we would like to thank Claudia Sternberg, Christine Reh, Piet Eeckhout and Richard Bellamy, who were instrumental in drumming up support for the project within the European Studies community, and whose efforts ensured the final product would be comprehensive in its coverage of the discipline. We are also much indebted to Oliver Patel for his tireless administrative and intellectual support, both on the book itself and on the various other projects the writing of the volume foisted upon him. We would also like to thank the members of the European Institute's Advisory Board, who followed the book's progress with much interest and encouraged us that there was substantial demand for such a volume in the policy world. The Chair of the Board, Sir John Birch, is particularly deserving of our gratitude for his longstanding commitment to the work of the European Institute, his keen interest in the volume and his helpful insights on its content and audience.The book has benefited immensely from the helpful staff at UCL Press. We are grateful in particular to Tim Mathews, who first floated the idea of a book on Brexit, and to our editor, Chris Penfold, who has advised on and overseen the process from start to finish. We would also like to thank the two anonymous referees appointed by UCL Press, whose constructive and detailed comments helped us to structure the volume and finesse the arguments therein. Above all, however, we are grateful to all of our contributing authors, who have lent their expertise and their intellect to this project and whose timely and insightful contributions are the very essence of this book. Finally, AcknowlEdgEMEntS viii we would like to thank our families -to whom we have dedicated this book -for their support and patience over the many months whilst we brought the project together. Chris Bickerton is a Reader in Modern European Politics at CambridgeUniversity, and a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. Gráinne de Búrca is the Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law and Faculty Director at the Hauser Global Law School, and Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law andJustice, at New York University. Michelle Cini is Professor of European Politics and Head of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.Deirdre Curtin is Professor of EU Law at the European University Institute in Florence. Helen Drake is Professor of French and European Studies andDirector of the Academy of Diplomacy and International Governance, Loughborough University London.Piet Eeckhout is Professor of EU Law, Dean of the Faculty of Laws, and Academic Director of the European Institute, at...

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“…Being overly optimistic might give people a distorted picture of reality and incentivize reckless behavior (Malmendier and Tate 2005). And naïve feelings of optimism without any evidence could be taken advantage of, or leave people apathetic in the face of serious threat or risk (Ojala 2012;Sleat 2013;Boukala and Dimitrakopoulou 2017).…”

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Hope in Economics

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Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope

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As a topic of research in economics, hope has not been very prevalent. Following the neo-classical paradigm, economists have tended to focus on rationality, self-interest, and universals. A normative and subjective experience such as hope was not believed to fit well with this perspective. However, the development of several heterodox economic approaches over the past decades, such as behavioral economics, has led to renewed attention being given to emotion, subjectivity, and normativity. Economic research on concepts related to hope, such as anticipatory feelings, (consumer) confidence, expectations and aspirations has consequently increased. In general, these studies find that hopeful feelings have a strong motivating power for (economic) behavior. By and large, the effects of hope seem to be positive, ranging from longevity and health to innovation and well-being. Nonetheless, there have also been indications that prompt caution, for example when it comes to false hopes, disappointment, or possible manipulation of societal hope. The field of economics has gained much valuable insight from existing research but we argue that it could gain from further definitional clarity. We discuss the difference between hope and related concepts such as optimism, in particular when it comes to economic research, and suggest topics for future research that could benefit from a focus on hope.

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The politics of fear vs. the politics of hope: analysing the 2015 Greek election and referendum campaigns

Cited by 68 publications

References 28 publications

The Relations between Hope and Subjective Well-Being: a Literature Overview and Empirical Analysis

The Relations between Hope and Subjective Well-Being: a Literature Overview and Empirical Analysis

Brexit and Beyond

Hope in Economics

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