The Politics of Elite Transformation
Subtitle: The Consolidation of Greek Democracy in Theoretical Perspective
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: April 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780275970352
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political structures: democracy; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; History; History - General History; History: World; Greece; Europe - Greece; Government - Comparative; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Democratization; Elite (Social sciences); Political leadership; Politics and government
First sentence: A well-known Athenian intellectual, writing anonymously in the colonels' Greece, could not possibly have known in 1972 of the uncharacteristic atmosphere of self-restraint, patience, and responsibility that would characterize Greek politics after the demise of the military junta.