Are the young returning to politics? Greek political culture and the changing patterns of the young as political actors, under the crisis
Abstract
The trend towards growing political disengagement, cynicism and distance from politics, that prevailed since the early 90’s in the Greek political culture, seems to be countered especially by a part of the citizens considered, until recently, mainly apolitical: the young. Indeed, even before the crisis, and particularly since the “explosion” of December 2008, young Greeks are more and more engaged in non-institutionalized political participation and direct action, culminating in the 2010-2011 events against austerity measures. Furthermore, certain political developments seem lately to attract the young into traditional participation venues also. If the crisis has provoked “the return of the young” to politics, mainly and initially through direct action, and their radicalization, as attested by the massive vote of the young in favour of the Left, after almost thirty years of increasing distanciation from politics, what are the preconditions for the stability of their (fragile and with low party identification) reinsertion into politics, and the participatory turn of the Greek political culture? And more importantly: Is this really, and in what sense, a «return to politics»? And do we really attest a tendency towards the radicalization of the young?
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Παντελίδου Μαλούτα Μ. (2017). Are the young returning to politics? Greek political culture and the changing patterns of the young as political actors, under the crisis. Greek Political Science Review, 43, 5–46. https://doi.org/10.12681/hpsa.14404
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