Overview
- Offers the first empirical case study of a holistic theoretical framework of permanent campaigning
- Explores the political communication strategies of Greek PMs Antonis Samaras, Alexis Tsipras and Kyriakos Mitsotakis
- Applies both qualitative (elite interviewing) and quantitative (analysis of Facebook posts) methods
Part of the book series: Political Campaigning and Communication (PCC)
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Reviews
“Dr Koliastasis’ book makes an important contribution to the study of the political campaign means and skills essential for premiership. The case of permanent campaign indeed has become the canon for political leaders across the world. This is due to various factors, ranging from new means of political communication, such as 24/7 news coverage and the advent of social media that allow real-time interaction, to the de-alignment of voters from mainstream parties. It is a common sense that heads of governments find it very challenging to secure support for the reforms they are struggling to pursue, while they are confronted with high pressure from the electorates for even more efficient and immediate solutions to a wide-ranging set of problems and concerns. Hence, studying the way political campaigns may uphold the functioning of governments, and maintain political support, is a matter of concern for all those who conceive of politics as a profession in Weberian terms. Moreover, there is another useful contribution by Dr Kolliastasis’ focus on three Greek premiers – A. Samaras, A.Tsipras, K.Mitsotakis. Since 2009 Greek politics attracted great publicity in international media as much as in academic debates over the economic crisis and its grave effects for the prosperity and sustainability of the state. In that context, the dramatic and unprecedented for the European standards decrease of trust in political institutions, as made evident in the turmoil of these years, and especially the restructuring of the party systems, the rise of anti-systemic parties and polarization, and government instability, created sui generis political circumstances for managing state affairs. Hence, studying the ways premiers coming from opposite ideological backgrounds tried to cope with voters’ critical stance and changing voting preferences highlights some of the very interesting topics of contemporary Political Science research on political communication and party politics. The analysis is very coherent and systematic, and brings up many critical points that become relevant to the bibliography beyond the case of Greek politics.”
—Manos Papazoglou, Assistant Professor in Political Systems, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese, Greece“A very welcome and much needed book that explores theories and applications of permanent campaigning. This book offers a perceptive examination of how permanent campaigning was employed by three Greek Prime Ministers during the last decade, and as such offers insights beyond the widely researched cases of the US and northern Europe.”
—Anastasia Veneti, Principal Academic in Political Communication, Bournemouth University, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Panos Koliastasis is Postdoctoral Researcher in Politics at the University of Athens and Lecturer (adjunct) at the University of Peloponnese, Greece.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Permanent Campaigning in Greece in Times of Crisis
Book Subtitle: The Samaras, Tsipras and Mitsotakis Premierships
Authors: Panos A. Koliastasis
Series Title: Political Campaigning and Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11691-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11690-2Published: 23 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11691-9Published: 22 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-589X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 189
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Political Communication, Political Leadership, Electoral Politics