“Why Did It Take So Long?” Exploring Greek Public Opinion as an Obstacle to the Settlement of the Macedonia Name Dispute

Armakolas, Ioannis; Siakas, Georgios

doi:10.1017/nps.2021.7

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“…This approach doesn't define the part that could be more impactful, as what matters is the actual equilibrium rather than the driving forces that move towards the balance point. On an application of the above, a recent case study, (Armakolas & Siakas, 2021) explored influences in shaping the Greek public opinion towards the naming dispute between Greece and North Macedonia.…”

Section: Elements Of the Theory And Field Descriptionsmentioning

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Touching Distance: The underlying Russophilia in the Skripal Case Coverage in Greek Press

Paschalidis¹,

Siakas²

2022

SMC

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Theories of mediatization and domestication provide an analytical framework in understanding how patterns of interpretation are related to the public opinion’s attitudes towards actors and topics. In this study, we focus on the coverage of the Skripal case by major Greek newspapers in March 2018 in a pursuit to determine the variety of dispositions towards Russia. The Greek media’s coverage seems to comply with a disengaged approach: more news than views. The majority of news reports -instead of opinions- can be regarded as an effect of awkwardness or a choice not to provide analysis on Russia, even though the abundant news reports have the exact opposite effect of maintaining the public’s vivid interest. By performing a content analysis on articles with references to Russia, we seek to look beneath this veneer. We suggest that the Greek newspapers’ coverage is linked with more structural traits, such as Russophilia, as we identify several distinct subcultures in the press when it comes to dispositions towards Russia.

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Section: Elements Of the Theory And Field Descriptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Touching Distance: The underlying Russophilia in the Skripal Case Coverage in Greek Press

Paschalidis¹,

Siakas²

2022

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“…Since the dissolution of Yugoslavia, successive Greek governments refused to recognize FYROM by its constitutional name, using their institutional weight to block the small nation's accession to EU and NATO (Kofos, 1999). Liberal and left-wing voices that sought a compromise with the neighboring country were vastly outnumbered by nationalists who championed an obstinate stance (Armakolas and Siakas, 2021). From an office-seeking perspective, Tsipras prioritized the signing of the so-called Prespa Agreement in order to tactically bolster the coalition's electoral prospects.…”

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Coalition-making under conditions of ideological mismatch: The populist solution

Aslanidis

2021

International Political Science Review

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This article problematizes how non-spatial factors facilitate the formation of extraordinary ideologically mismatched government coalitions. An intensive case study analysis of the SYRIZA–ANEL governments in Greece (2015–2019) suggests that a shared symbolic discourse directed against mainstream contenders allowed elite actors with widely disparate programmatic commitments to circumvent rigid constraints imposed by minimal range theory. Under conditions of acute polarization and socioeconomic upheaval owing to the Greek sovereign debt crisis, a strategic use of populist anti-bailout discourse upset the usual order of party competition along spatial dimensions, fostering cross-ideological cohabitation at the executive level between the radical-left SYRIZA and the radical-right ANEL for a total of four years. However, an office-seeking approach based on a populist symbolic framework to represent salient grievances cannot fully eliminate policy dissension. Once core ideological commitments become explicitly challenged, inelastic policy-oriented factions and voting blocs may ultimately precipitate the expiration of the populist coalition.

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“…In July 2018, 45 per cent agreed or rather agreed that supporters of the Agreement were 'traitors' (Kapa Research 2018b). Given that the negative position of the vast majority of the population had been crystallised for over two decades (Armakolas & Siakas 2021), winning wider support for the Prespa Agreement was for Tsipras' government an almost impossible task.…”

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Political Polarisation in Greece: The Prespa Agreement, Left/Right Antagonism and the Nationalism/Populism Nexus

Skoulariki¹

2020

South European Society and Politics

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Following the signing of the Prespa Agreement in June 2018, the Macedonian name issue became the most prominent topic on the Greek political agenda, catalysing an exceptional political confrontation and contributing to the realignment of political parties and eventually to government change. Analysing the political discourse and public debate on the issue from January 2018 until the July 2019 national elections, as well as opinion polls and electoral results, the paper explores the conditions leading to the escalation of political polarisation on the left/right axis, at the expense of smaller centrist parties. It is argued that political antagonism was built on the previous political cleavage (although the populist/anti-populism axis was now reversed). By mobilising public emotions around an alleged 'national threat', the polarisation around the Macedonian name issue proved far more successful for the Greek right than for the left.

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“Why Did It Take So Long?” Exploring Greek Public Opinion as an Obstacle to the Settlement of the Macedonia Name Dispute

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Touching Distance: The underlying Russophilia in the Skripal Case Coverage in Greek Press

Touching Distance: The underlying Russophilia in the Skripal Case Coverage in Greek Press

Coalition-making under conditions of ideological mismatch: The populist solution

Political Polarisation in Greece: The Prespa Agreement, Left/Right Antagonism and the Nationalism/Populism Nexus

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