Tsipras and the rhetorical speech as policy

Abstract: It is the first time after the restoration of democracy in Greece that such a U-turn has been conducted. The radical, unconventional and extreme rhetoric against harsh austeritywas sharply transformed into a tactical retreat in order to supposedly support more effectively the public interest. SYRIZA, a heterogeneous alloy of leftist tendencies, treated the popular anger and resentment towards harsher austerity measures in order to achieve electoral rise. Consequently, it was rapidly transformed from a small – protest – party into a power party. In this instance, it transformed, without moral curb, citizens’ despair into an extreme rhetoric which defended their “rights” in order to rise to power. Namely, SYRIZA treated instrumentally the expectations of the desperate as a means to rise to power in order to benefit the party but not for the whole society

Alternative title
Tsipras und der rhetorische Diskurs als Politik
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 12 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Erstveröffentlichung
begutachtet

Classification
Politik

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Rethymnon
(when)
2016
Creator
Kotroyannos, Dimitrios
Contributor
University of Crete, Department of Political Science

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-47015-9
Rights
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Kotroyannos, Dimitrios
  • University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Time of origin

  • 2016

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