Dis-Embeddedness and De-Classification

Modernization Politics and the Greek Teacher Unions in the 1990s

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3286145
AutoresHarris Athanasiades (University of Bristal), Alexandros Patramanis (University of Bristal)
Año2002
Volumen50
Número4
Páginas610-639
Fecha de publicación2002-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-954x.00401
OpenAlexW2151780418
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas37

During the 90s, PASOK, in common with the other European social democratic parties, has advocated Third Way revisionism and has placed the 'modernization' of the Greek society high on its political agenda. By focusing on a series of conflictual incidents between the teacher unions and the Greek government, this paper exemplifies the repercussions of this process on teachers-state relations. Building upon the dialectics of path shaping and path dependency, we suggest that the particular development of the modernization project and the reactions it has triggered are to be attributed to the historically determined, nationally specific, contingently activated institutional legacies and structures that, on the one hand, stand in the way of the incorporation of Greece to the EMU/ESM and, on the other, are employed by the unions to defend industrial and social citizenship

Citizenship · Democracy · Dialectic · Economic system · Economics · Embeddedness · Epistemology · Government (linguistics) · Modernization theory · Path dependency · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · Gender Politics and Representation · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies