The Radical Left's Turn towards Civil Society in Greece: One Strategy, Two Paths

Tsakatika, Myrto; Eleftheriou, Costas

doi:10.1080/13608746.2012.757455

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“…This seems logical, since individuals stating that such a strategy is most likely to bring success and wishing to follow such a strategy would be likely to exhibit cooperative behaviour even in the absence of either an authority figure or possibility of reciprocation. In this sense, such students are the most likely to be proponents of a "grassroots civil society", a concept which has gained increasing political and social support in the face of globalisation, centralisation and the recent banking crisis (see Galicki, 2014;Tsakatika and Eleftheriou, 2013). However, due to relatively low level of significance, this results needs to be corrobated by other studies.…”

Section: Observed Behaviour and Answers To The Strategy Questionscontrasting

confidence: 41%

“…These results indicate that such individuals may show a high level of cooperation and trust when dealing with an in-group, but are mistrustful of society and institutions as a whole. Such behaviour is similar to that expressed by members of the civil society movement (see Tsakatika and Eleftheriou, 2013). On the other hand, it is difficult to characterise individuals in this group who do not intend to follow such a strategy (for example, their level of cooperation in the Public Goods Game is only slightly below the average level).…”

Section: Conclusion and Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Social Capital and Polish Students’ Behaviour in Experimental Games Designed to Illustrate Cooperation

Markowska-Przybyła

Ramsey²

2015

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ABSTRACT. Social capital in the form of informal norms and networks of social relationships is an intrinsic element of any society and influences the effectiveness of its economy. For this reason, it is important to understand the relation between individuals' social capital and the behaviour they express in social and economic interactions. Two important elements of social capital are generalised trust and norms of reciprocation. Hence, this article presents results from a study designed to investigate the level of generalised trust and reciprocation among Polish students. In previous studies, a positive answer to the trust question: "Do you believe that the majority of people can be trusted?", has been shown to be associated with cooperative behaviour in the Public Goods Game. Our questionnaire included two novel questions aimed at elucidating students' opinions about what sort of behaviour is most likely to bring success and whether such behaviour is in line with their own outlook. The results of the study presented here indicate that the answer to the first question is a better predictor of behaviour in the two games considered here than the answer to the trust question and one of the possible answers to this question can be interpreted as an expression of generalised trust. Also, when taken together, the answers to these two questions give a more subtle picture of individuals' trust in the general public and institutions.

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Section: Conclusion and Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning

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Social Capital and Polish Students’ Behaviour in Experimental Games Designed to Illustrate Cooperation

Markowska-Przybyła

Ramsey²

2015

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“…This result tallies with analyses of SYRIZA's election campaign, which was carefully crafted to counter its perceived exclusion from pro-establishment traditional media. This helped SYRIZA dislocate the dominant narrative that there was no alternative to austerity (Common Space, 2015;Tsakatika and Eleftheriou, 2013). The negative effect of union membership on the SYRIZA vote on the other hand indicates that it failed to strengthen its ties with trade unions, which have historically been dominated by the Socialist PASOK and the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and where, pre-crisis, it had no real militant tradition or base (Tsakatika and Eleftheriou, 2013).…”

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The Three Waves of Anti-Austerity Protest in Greece, 2010–2015

Karyotis

Rüdig

2017

Political Studies Review

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The apparent ubiquity of protest in recent years and the rise of Occupy movements across the world have fuelled claims that a new style of mobilisation is emerging which is markedly different from previous social movements. Analysing a series of original survey data, this article engages with this debate by providing a panoramic account of how the anti-austerity movement evolved in Greece, comparing the drivers of protest in three distinct protest waves. Contrary to expectations, the rise of the Greek version of the Indignados during 2011 did not decisively transform the anti-austerity movement that emerged in 2010, which mainly displayed characteristics typically associated with 'old' social movements. However, elements of the 'new social movements' approach featured more prominently in the third wave of protest, beginning in mid-2012 and culminating in January 2015 with victory for SYRIZA, the party which channelled the anti-austerity movement into the political scene. The model developed to study protest in non-electoral arenas also performs well to explain the success of SYRIZA in the electoral arena, highlighting the reciprocal but understudied relationship between mobilisation and electoral politics.

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“…In terms of strategy, SYRIZA's steady linkage with civil society and support for various social movements was important for its 2012 electoral performance (Tsakatika & Eleftheriou 2013), and it would be safe to assert that it has also played an important part in expressing the aforementioned will for change, which resulted in SYRIZA's January 2015 victory. For example, during the main speech made in Athens three days before the election by SYRIZA's leader and subsequent prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, in front of the podium were banners of several groups of workers who had lost their jobs because of the austerity measures and whom SYRIZA had promised would be reinstated should SYRIZA win the election.…”

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

Tsirbas¹

2015

South European Society and Politics

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The Radical Left's Turn towards Civil Society in Greece: One Strategy, Two Paths

Cited by 91 publications

References 13 publications

Social Capital and Polish Students’ Behaviour in Experimental Games Designed to Illustrate Cooperation

Social Capital and Polish Students’ Behaviour in Experimental Games Designed to Illustrate Cooperation

The Three Waves of Anti-Austerity Protest in Greece, 2010–2015

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

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