The Remains of Authoritarianism: Bureaucracy and Civil Society in Post-Authoritarian Greece

The dominant view of Greek civil society is that it is weak compared to the civil societies of other West European countries. At the same time, the Greek bureaucracy is not as strong as its West European counterparts in the sense that the Greek bureaucracy, even after the fall of the colonels'...

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Autore principale: Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A.
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien 2006
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:The dominant view of Greek civil society is that it is weak compared to the civil societies of other West European countries. At the same time, the Greek bureaucracy is not as strong as its West European counterparts in the sense that the Greek bureaucracy, even after the fall of the colonels' authoritarian regime, cannot resist the incursions of conservative or populist political elites, which, organized around the parties of New Democracy and PASOK respectively, have alternated in power si...