Tag: Greece

• Syriza shows the failure of ‘cartel politics’

  As expected, the radical left party Syriza was the big winner of the Greek elections, coming only two seats short of an absolute majority in parliament. But it’s unclear if new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be able to effectively pursue his anti-austerity agenda and renegotiate the terms of the Greek bailout with creditors — and he will…

  alexandre afonso

  January 27, 2015

  Uncategorized

  Austerity, clientelism, eurozone crisis, Greece, Syriza

• Reforming Southern Europe: How to Square the Triangle of Employment, Fiscal Austerity and Inequality?

  Mass unemployment is probably one of the most worrying features of the Eurozone crisis. As youth unemployment is hitting record levels (one in four people under 25 in Europe and more than one in two in Spain are officially out of work), many observers are warning against the rise of a “lost generation”, especially in…

  alexandre afonso

  December 17, 2013

  Austerity, Corporatism, Eurozone Crisis, Welfare

  employment, equality, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Welfare

• The Political Consequences of Austerity in Southern Europe

  So I have written a blog post (both in Spanish on El Diario’s Agenda Publica and in English on the LSE’s Europp blog) that seeks to explain why the Portuguese party system has stayed relatively stable in the face of austerity policies while the Greek party system has exploded. The main arguments were 1)   that…

  alexandre afonso

  July 31, 2013

  Austerity, Eurozone Crisis

  Beppe Grillo, Greece, Greek, Italy, Panhellenic Socialist Movement, Portugal, Southern Europe

• How Austerity Killed Greek Parties, While Portuguese Parties Survived

  This shows the electoral score of the two mainstream parties in Greece and Portugal in 2009 (before the outbreak of the crisis) and in 2011 (in Portugal) and 2012 (in Greece), after the outbreak of the crisis. For Greece, this shows the results of the May elections; new elections were held in June as no…

  alexandre afonso

  July 5, 2013

  Austerity, Eurozone Crisis

  Austerity, clientelism, elections, Greece, Greek, New Democracy, Panhellenic Socialist Movement, party politics, Portugal, Syriza

• How big is the Greek public sector, really?

  In the media you always read about the Greek “bloated and corrupt” public sector full of useless slags.  Now I have been unable to find actual data that can back up this claim. OECD data (picture above) indicate on the contrary that the Greek public sector is actually much smaller than elsewhere. 1) Are the…

  alexandre afonso

  July 4, 2013

  Eurozone Crisis

  Greece, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Public sector