Political development and the rise of the Golden Dawn in Greece
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Speaker
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Antonis Ellinas
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Cyprus
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Chair
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Professor Kevin Featherstone
Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE
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Date
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Tuesday, 24 November 2015
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Venue
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Cañada Blanch Room, COW 1.11, 1st floor, Cowdray House
European Institute, LSE
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Time
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18:00-19:30
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Abstract
The literature predicts that parties like the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn are doomed to the
margins of electoral competition, scaring away voters with their authoritarian views and violent tactics. This talk examined why, contrary to the experience of other established democracies, Greece has experienced the rise of a relatively successful neo-Nazi party. Going beyond standard explanations in the literature on the radical right in Western Europe, Antonis Ellinas aimed to explore how political developmental factors affect the rise of political extremism.
Biography
Antonis A. Ellinas is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cyprus. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.A. from Hamilton College. He works on political organizations and institutions. He is the author of The Media and the Far Right in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press 2010) and The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge University Press 2012, with Ezra Suleiman). His work has appeared in Comparative Politics, West European Politics, South European Society and Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies, among others.
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