Greece, 1981–89: The Populist Decade (Studies in Russia and East Europe)

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Politics and Culture in Greece, 1974–91: An Interpretation....Pages 1-25 PASOK in Power: From ‘Change’ to Disenchantment....Pages 26-46 Civil Society under Populism....Pages 47-64 The Presidency, Parliament and the Courts in the 1980s....Pages 65-77 The Left in the 1980s: Too Little, Too Late....Pages 78-93 The 1980s in the Looking-Glass: PASOK and the Media....Pages 94-112 PASOK’s Foreign Policies, 1981–89: Continuity or Change?....Pages 113-130 From the ‘Special Relationship’ to Europeanism: PASOK and the European Community, 1981–89....Pages 131-153 Beneath the Sound and the Fury: US Relations with the PASOK Government....Pages 154-166 PASOK and Greek-Turkish Relations....Pages 167-180 Defence and Security Policies under PASOK....Pages 181-189 Back Matter....Pages 190-194 Offers an in-depth anatomy of the PASOK government in Greece between 1981 and 1989. PASOK's "socialism", under the leadership of Andreas Papandreou, assumed a distinctly populist form, markedly different from West European social democracy. Richard Clogg is the author of "Greece in the 1980s".