[MGSA-L] Fwd: Politics Talk: Tu. April 12, 6 PM Michalis Spourdalakis on "SYRIZA: From New Radicalism to New Realism"

[Andreas Kalyvas]

*The New School for Social Research*

Politics Talk: Michalis Spourdalakis on "SYRIZA: From New Radicalism to New
Realism"Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 79 5th Avenue, 1618
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Michalis Spourdalakis will present and analyze the origin and the unique
strategy of SYRIZA that elevated it from a small party of the left, to
the epicenter of the Greek political and party system, and then to
power.  Many have argued that SYRIZA’s radicalism has been transformed
into a type of new party of realism which has alienated it from its
original orientation and identity.  Professor Spourdalakis will examine the
content and the reasons for this alleged realism in the second part of
his talk.



*Michalis Spourdalakis*, has been teaching political sociology as Professor
in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, at the
University of Athens, since 1991.  Since April 2014 he has also been Dean
of the School of Economics and Politics.  He is director at the Laboratory
of Political Communication and Media Information at the University of
Athens, Greece.  Before assuming his current position at the University of
Athens, he was Assistant Professor at Bishop's University, Lennoxville,
Quebec, Canada; a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); and a Researcher at the National Center
of Social Research, in Athens.  He is currently director of the Canadian
Studies Center at the University of Athens.He  has published in the field
of political sociology in both English and Greek, and part of his work has
been translated into Spanish and Chinese.  His books and articles have
elaborated themes on political representation with an emphasis on political
parties' relation to society, culture and the state; on local and regional
administration and development; on the welfare state and collective
consumption; and on Greek political institutions and policies since 1974.
His publications include:  *The Rise of the Greek Socialist Party*, London:
Routledge, 1988;  *On the Theory and the Study of Political Parties*,
Athens: 1989;  *Populism and Politics*, (with N. Mouzelis and T. Libovats),
Athens: 1990;  *The Constitutions of Political Parties* (with G.
Papademetriou), Athens: 1994;  *pasok:  Party-State-Society*, (ed.) Athens:
1998, *Party of European Socialists: Prospects and Challenges,* Athens,
2001.

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