This article compares the welfare reform dynamics and rescaling processes over the last few
years in Greece and Portugal. It comprises four main sections. After an introduction, the …

The literature on blame avoidance suggests that politicians seek to avoid the risk of electoral
punishment by means of blame‐shifting. Based on a quantitative content analysis of public …

This article interrogates a tension at the heart of the principle of accountability: accountability
as a principle of non-impunity of public officials versus accountability as a form of …

The article argues that across the East European region ongoing uncertainty about the
nature of the state-society compact is central to continuous relevance of “national” in politics …

This article addresses an important but understudied aspect of the recent Great Recession
in Europe: the institutional strategies political elites deployed to learn from past policy …

The present study attempts to combine Raskin's (1985) and Davies'(2011) methodological
approaches to political jokes to investigate Greek political jokes targeting politicians and …

This chapter examines the development of consociational theory by Arend Lijphart and its
implications for the case of Cyprus. The chapter is divided into three parts. First, it examines …

The Eurozone crisis that erupted in late 2009 had a strong impact on the countries of the EU
periphery, triggering a range of fiscal and structural adjustments at all levels of government …

This research investigates the role of austerity in the rise of right-and left-wing populism in
European politics. The study examines macro-hypotheses to determine whether austerity …

The EU accession marked the end of postcommunist institutional transition, yet the nature of
relations between state institutions with their societies was far from settled. The chapter …