Dissertation committee:
Μιχάλης Σπουρδαλάκης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ.
Ηλίας Νικολακόπουλος, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ.
Δημήτρης Σωτηρόπουλος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ.
Χρήστος Λυριντζής, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ.
Βασιλική Γεωργιάδου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Ιστορίας, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Ευθύμης Παπαβλασόπουλος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης
Μυρτώ Τσακατίκα, Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
Summary:
The present PhD thesis describes and analyses the strategy of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) during the 1990s and the 2000s in reference to its coalition politics and the models of political mobilization it developed. The basic argument is that during this period the KKE developed two distinct models of political mobilization – one ‘labour-unionist’ and one ‘anti-imperialist’ that corresponded to two distinct coalition logics – a narrow one and an open one. From 1996 to 2002 these two models of political mobilization are coexisting through KKE’s political practice and gradually from to 2002 and afterwards the ‘labour-unionist’ model prevails over the ‘anti-imperialist’. Thus the ‘narrow’ logic of political and social coalitions prevails over the relatively ‘open’ one. The strategy of the party is studied through an extensive analysis of party documents and the party’s official newspaper (‘Rizospastis’) from 1992 to 2005.
Keywords:
Communist Party of Greece, Communist Movement, Greek Politics, Greek Party Politics
