Abstract: Setting up a democracy is one thing, making it work is quite another. This study began with postwar politics in Greece, when the political parties had no autonomy and were almost entirely dependent on a partisan state. Then it passed to the initially uncertain establishment of the modern democratic regime and traced its trajectory mainly through the development of ND, the largest and most important party during the early postauthoritarian phase. Today, democracy in the Third Greek Republic appears to be firmly established and, by all objective standards, is operating at full stretch. However, as more recent experience has made grievously evident, it is still far from perfect. In the years following the formative 1974-81 period this book has examined, the parties grew huge and omnipresent, and their performance was often accompanied by irresponsibility, inefficiency, mismanagement, political corruption and economic scandal. Social polarization, in particular, became acute. We must therefore ask: what has gone awry with the young Greek democracy? The matter is not negligible inasmuch as it directly affects the quality of the existing democratic regime, let alone its future viability.KeywordsPolitical PartyParty SystemParty IdentificationCharismatic LeaderPolitical PartiThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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