Populism, in other words, is the idea of a certain democracy in which illiberalism trumps liberalism.
The electoral victory of Tsipras over his political opponents signifies the triumph of energetic populism over docile liberalism.
The electoral victory of Tsipras over his political opponents signifies the triumph of energetic populism over docile liberalism.
How will Greece be able to fix its economy in a desert landscape, with no appetite for reforms, without helpful partners and with a crippled democracy?
How will Greece be able to fix its economy in a desert landscape, with no appetite for reforms, without helpful partners and with a crippled democracy?
How do we make sense of the seemingly incongruous coalition between Syriza and the Independent Greeks?
How do we make sense of the seemingly incongruous coalition between Syriza and the Independent Greeks?
Perhaps paradoxically, Greece’s real problem is primarily political, not economic, and its name is “populism.”
Perhaps paradoxically, Greece’s real problem is primarily political, not economic, and its name is “populism.”
Who exactly is Alexis Tsipras, the man who may very well become Greece's next prime minister?
Who exactly is Alexis Tsipras, the man who may very well become Greece's next prime minister?
What is to happen in Greece in the forthcoming European elections, which, not without a certain irony of history, will take place while this country holds the EU presidency? Euro elections landscape, 2014.
