Socioeconomic Fragmentation and Exclusion in Greece under the Crisis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Dimitris Katsikas

   Pages 1-20

3. Socio-Economic Developments and Social Policy During the Crisis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Inequality and Poverty in Greece: Changes in Times of Crisis

      • Eirini Andriopoulou, Alexandros Karakitsios, Panos Tsakloglou

      Pages 23-54

   3. Employment and Unemployment in Greece Before and After the Outbreak of the Crisis

      • Kyriakos Filinis, Alexandros Karakitsios, Dimitris Katsikas

      Pages 55-88

   4. Too Little, Too Late: The Mismatch Between Social Policy and Social Crisis

      • Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

      Pages 89-108

4. Discourses and Perceptions on Poverty and Social Exclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. New Words, Old Patterns: Political Discourse and Documents on Poverty and Social Exclusion in Greece

      • Dimitris Katsikas, Anastasia Papakonstantinou

      Pages 111-140

   3. (Mis)understanding the Social Effects of the Crisis: Elite Perceptions of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Greece

      • Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Anastasia Papakonstantinou

      Pages 141-161

   4. Civil Society Discourses on Poverty and Social Exclusion During the Greek Crisis

      • Maria Zafiropoulou, Aspasia Theodosiou, Alejandro Pérez

      Pages 163-187

5. Civil Society’s Reaction to the Crisis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Understanding Civil Society’s Positioning and Strategies during the Crisis

      • Maria Zafiropoulou

      Pages 191-218

   3. A Fragmented but Strengthened Civil Society?

      • Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

      Pages 219-235

   4. Conclusions: Multiple Aspects of Fragmentation and a Double Mismatch

      • Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

      Pages 237-252

6. Back Matter

   Pages 253-258

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This volume uses new empirical evidence and analytical ideas to study phenomena of fragmentation and exclusion threatening stability and cohesion in Greek society in the aftermath of the crisis. The contributors argue that processes of fragmentation and exclusion provoked by the crisis can be observed on both a material and an ideational level. On a material level, rising levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality have produced new social security “outsiders”, while on an ideational level, a discursive-cultural shift is documented, which has led to new understandings and categorizations of new (and old) insiders and outsiders. Moreover,  the volume attests to the aspirations, but also the limitations, of spontaneous civil society mobilization to address the social crisis. Finally, the volume offers a discussion of the political management of social fragmentation and exclusion in Greece both before and after the onset of the crisis. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of social policy and phenomena of poverty, social exclusion and economic inequality, civil society studies, and comparative political economy and politics.

• Socioeconomic policies
• economic crisis in Greece
• Greek economic policy
• political society in Greece
• Greek political economy
• financial crisis in Greece
• unemployment in Greece
• poverty in Greece
• social exclusion in Greece
• social fragmentation in Greece
• civil society mobilization
• political management of crisis
• economic inequality in Greece
• public policy in Greece
• Eurozone
• EU crisis

• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  Dimitris Katsikas, Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

• Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

  Maria Zafiropoulou

Dimitris Katsikas is Lecturer of International and European Political Economy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Head of the Crisis Observatory at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece.

 

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Associate Professor of Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He has published six books on Greek politics and society in Greek.

 

Maria Zafiropoulou works as an expert for the E.U. in healthcare and social issues and she is an active member of the Crisis Observatory at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece.

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