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donate Abstracts for Greek Political Science Review 30 (2007)
St. Alexandropoulos, N. Serntedakis, I. Botetzagias
Greek environmentalism: From the status nascendi of a movement to its integration
This article examines the ways in which the institutionalization of ecological action affects the structure, the directions, and the orientation of Greek environmentalism today. The understanding of present-day characteristics of Greek environmentalism is based on a diachronic analysis of its different stages of development. Today, its institutional upgrading is not an effect of the movement's power but, rather, a result of state initiatives and of functional requirements that relate to the process of Greece's integration into the European Union. Although these new characteristics of ecological action are discussed in the Greek context, they are also assessed as having a broader theoretical significance in the overall debate on social movements.
S. Seferiades
Concepts and theory: Commentary on the contribution of the contentious politics field in the study of social movements
Contentious Politics, a booming research programme with an impressive array of "positive heuristics" (in Lakatos's sense), has wrested the study of social movements from the obscurity of earlier academic approaches (especially "collective behaviour") had sentenced it to. But certain key tenets of the approach – the way it defines "social movements"; its appraisal of social-movement institutionalization; and its overall epistemology (especially its penchant for expanding the thematic scope of theorizing) – remain in dispute. The goal of this article is to make a contribution to the debate by rebutting certain misconceptions.
Dimitris N. Chryssochoou
Europe as synarchy
The author develops a new conceptual understanding of the European Union (EU) as a synarchy of entangled sovereignties: a densely institutionalized system of shared rule that produces a flexible interpretation of the classical sovereignty principle and, with it, of the capacity of jointly organized units to determine collectively their future within a larger, composite polity. It aims at yielding new insights into the structural transformations of sovereign statehood in Europe in the light of the emergence of the new forms of governance. In that regard, the EU is being transformed into a new type of regional constellation that projects a polyarchical configuration of political authority.
George Mavrogenis
Electoral campaign slogans during the third Greek republic (1974-2004)
An examination of the campaign slogans used by the Greek political parties in the eleven election campaigns than took place during the Third Greek Republic, (1974- today). Slogans as a rhetorical device reflect the political discourse of each election campaign. At the same time, they carry enlightening information about their social environment, reflecting social demands. Thus their analysis can provide information about the wider social context of each election period. Through their study, this research follows the development of Greek political practices and the wider cultural and structural changes that took place during the examined period.
Published 2008-05-10
Original in Greek
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