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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Kivotidis, Dimitrios |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The pharmakon of demcoracy: general will and the people in the context of the Greek referendm |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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p.755-775. |
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| Summary, etc |
This article examines the role of the Greek referendum of 2015 in the context of the Greek socio-economic and political crisis. The analysis of the mediating role of referendum in the process of class struggle leads to a more general argument relating to fundamental concepts of public law, namely, ‘general will’ and the ‘people’. Central to the analysis is the question of whether referendums are a remedy for the problems facing the institutions of representative democracy. By analysing the process of the Greek referendum, with a focus on the formulation of the question and the interpretation of the verdict of the Greek people by the executive power, a more general argument is constructed regarding the mediating role of the referendum in a crisis and the legitimating role of such concepts in a class-divided society. In a context of rising inequality and furthering distantiation of the popular strata from decision-making processes, the referendum is shown, on the one hand, as a remedy for the failings of representative institutions on behalf of capital and necessary for the reproduction of capitalist relations. On the other hand, on the background of a discussion of the relation between democracy and capitalism, it is argued that the referendum acts as a different kind of poison for the people themselves and the struggle of the popular classes. - Reproduced. |
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Democracy - Greece |
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5707 |
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Social and Legal Studies |
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Referendum - Greece |
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