Konstantinidis, Nikitas (2012) The erosion of national democratic politics? LSE Greece@LSE (13 May 2012). Website.
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Abstract
The results of the May 6 parliamentary elections have heralded the end of an era in its post-dictatorial democratic politics (metapolitefsi) characterized by alternation in power by two catch-all parties, cartelization of government, and heavy statism. The people have expressed a strong aversion to established political elites of the center-left PASOK and the center-right New Democracy (whose vote shares added up to 32%, less than half of their sum total in the 2009 elections). The rise of SYRIZA, a pre-electoral coalition of left-wing movements, has been the major story so far. However, the existing electoral system – designed by New Democracy in 2006 as a buttress for an entrenched two-party system and stable single-party government – has led to a significant distortion of the democratic will in terms of the translation of vote shares into seats (New Democracy gained more than a third of the seats with only 19% of the vote).
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/greeceatlse/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | Government |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2017 07:31 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 18:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/79431 |
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