Politics, Politicians, political system and Democracy in Greece: the quest of an actual reformation. Views and beliefs of Greek university students (original) (raw)
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There have been almost 40 years after the restoration of democracy in Greece and a peculiar prosperity, which was consciously cultivated by the leaders of political and economic elites, was promoted before the onset of the financial crisis. However, from the beginning of the financial recession, the temporal illusions have been revealed and the need of a complete transformation of the financial policies has been expressed, while a significant transformation of the entire political culture has started. Parties such as SYRIZA, Independent Greeks(ANEL) and Golden Dawn took advantage of the growing social discontent by propagating their selves as exponents of ordinary people and of their concerns or their fears, as the expression of resistance against an avoidable sellout of public values. However, crisis has exposed a number of successive truths which were elaborately hiding in the underbelly of the detaining political and socioeconomic system. These truths were exteriorized once it became clear that the foundations on which the Greek society was based after the restoration of democracy, were weak and insufficient to guide the country's way towards a modern future.
In Greece, students have always been regarded as the central core of political affairs. Greek student movements are interwoven with political agility, controversies and political innovations. Nowadays research has demonstrated that Greek people, and, in particular, students have presented a kind of political apathy. The present paper aims at highlighting Greek students' views, perceptions and attitudes concerning the political system and the political structures and institutions that contribute to the formation of the political culture in Greece. The results indicate that students contradict political leadership, by soundly scorning those involved in politics, considering them accountable for the current profile of politics; in addition, they strongly question the function of the political institutions, in general, as well as any ideological morph associated with political action.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2017
There have been almost 40 years after the restoration of democracy in Greece and a peculiar prosperity, which was consciously cultivated by the leaders of political and economic elites, was promoted before the onset of the financial crisis. However, from the beginning of the financial recession, the temporal illusions have been revealed and the need of a complete transformation of the financial policies has been expressed, while a significant transformation of the entire political culture has started. Parties such as SYRIZA, Independent Greeks(ANEL) and Golden Dawn took advantage of the growing social discontent by propagating themselves as exponents of ordinary people and of their concerns or their fears, as the expression of resistance against an avoidable sellout of public values. However, crisis has exposed a number of successive truths which were elaborately hiding in the underbelly of the detaining political and socioeconomic system. These truths were exteriorized once it became clear that the foundations on which the Greek society was based after the restoration of democracy, were weak and insufficient to lead country towards a modern future.