The people in the ‘here and now’: Populism, modernization and the state in Greece

Angelos Chryssogelos

doi:10.1177/0192512117702524

The people in the ‘here and now’: Populism, modernization and the state in Greece

Angelos Chryssogelos^*

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Abstract

The term ‘populism’ has gained renewed prominence in Greece during the Eurozone crisis, in both public and academic debates. In this article I conceptualize populism as a discourse of territorial and temporal particularism, which challenges the way a state has been incorporated into the international political and economic system. Based on this definition, I question whether oppositional discourses employed by partisan actors or official power are wholesale and genuine expressions of populism. Thus, I contest the notion that Greece failed due to populism. Instead I draw attention to a failure in the official legitimation of modernization by state elites that long preceded the crisis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	473-487
Number of pages	15
Journal	INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
Volume	38
Issue number	4
Early online date	7 Sept 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512117702524
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 7 Sept 2017

Keywords

crisis
discourse
Greece
international
modernization
particularism
Populism
state

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