Syriza’s stance vis-à-vis the European Union following the financial crisis: the persistence of left Europeanism and the role of the European Left party

Nikolaos Nikolakakis (Lead / Corresponding author)

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    Abstract

    The paper argues that Syriza has remained faithful to its distinct form of left Europeanism in the post-crisis era. It aims at testing the relative importance of four factors: the party’s Eurocommunist heritage, its ideological pillars, its internal balance and party factionalism, and its transnational affiliations. In order to assess their importance, the present paper draws from on-going research applying a theoretical framework that combines the work of Johansson and Raunio (2001) with Charalambous’ (2013) communist dilemma. While the former framework provides us with the required areas of investigation, the latter focuses on the party’s mechanisms of altering salience levels in respect to its transnational affiliations. It thus pinpoints an additional level of analysis that highlights the importance of the Party of the European Left for Syriza’s unaltered stance towards the European edifice, at least for the party’s Unitary Platform that witnessed the Left Platform’s withdrawal from Syriza following Syriza’s ‘capitulation’ in July 2015.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)128-147
    Number of pages20
    JournalEuropean Politics and Society
    Volume18
    Issue number2
    Early online date17 Jun 2016
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 3 Apr 2017

    Keywords

    • economic crisis
    • Greek political parties
    • radical left
    • Radical left parties
    • southern Europe
    • SYRIZA

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Sociology and Political Science
    • Political Science and International Relations

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