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Exploring the negative effects of populism, this study presents an original explanation of Greece's current political and economic failures. It argues that the sovereign debt crisis only exacerbated the malfunctioning of a democracy long ago contaminated by populist politics while also offering a more general insight into the impact of populism

"Modern Populism: Research Advances, Conceptual and Methodological Pitfalls, and the Minimal Definition" published on by Oxford University Press.

The legitimacy claims of liberal democratic states are typically couched in the
language of individual rights and the rule of law. But contemporary liberal
democratic states increasingly appeal to a logic of security, law and order, and
the need to combat "political extremism." This logic plays
out in Ukraine, Egypt, and Turkey, and in Greece and Germany, but also in the
U.S., France, and the UK. It is an increasingly important feature of politics in
societies that may be experiencing a rough "transition to
democracy," but also in societies that are conventionally regarded as
"consolidated democracies." The normative and practical
challenges presented by this situation are fundamental. Alexander S.
Kirschner's A Theory of Militant Democracy: The Ethics of Combatting
Political Extremism offers one interesting take on these issues, which cut to
the core of political science as a discipline. We have thus invited a range of
political scientists from a variety of subfield and methodological perspectives
to comment on the book and on the broader topic the book engages—the
ethics of combatting political extremism and indeed the very political
construction of "political extremism." -- Jeffrey C.
Isaac

This article makes the case for a novel democratic subtype,populist democracy, indicating a situation in which both the party in office and at least the major opposition force(s) in a pluralist system are populist. Based on a minimal definition of populism as 'democratic illiberalism', and through the comparative analysis of post-authoritarian Greece and post-communist Hungary, the article reveals the particular stages, as well as the causal mechanisms, that may prompt the emergence of populist democracy in contemporary politics. It also points to the tendency of such systems to produce polarized two-party systems, and it calls for further research on the topic.

Seeking to offer a unified theory about Greece's current political and economic crisis, this article unravels the particular mechanisms through which this country developed as a populist democracy, that is, a pluralist system in which both the government and the opposition parties turn populist. It furthermore shows how this democracy facilitated the political class and the vast majority in Greek society to achieve and maintain for several decades an admirably high coordination of aims enabling them to exploit the state and its resources. Seen within the theoretical framework proposed, Greece offers policy-oriented scholars crucial insights into what may go badly wrong in developed Western democracies.

Seeking to offer a unified theory about Greece's current political and economic crisis, this article unravels the particular mechanisms through which this country developed as a populist democracy, that is, a pluralist system in which both the government and the opposition parties turn populist. It furthermore shows how this democracy facilitated the political class and the vast majority in Greek society to achieve and maintain for several decades an admirably high coordination of aims enabling them to exploit the state and its resources. Seen within the theoretical framework proposed, Greece offers policy-oriented scholars crucial insights into what may go badly wrong in developed Western democracies.