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Lessons I learned from Greece #1: abysmal incompetence of populist government leads many to mistaken belief it will be over quickly
Stathis Kalyvas
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Stathis Kalyvas
@SKalyvas
Gladstone Professor of Government, Oxford
- Replying to @SKalyvasLessons I learned from Greece #8: populists gain traction by scolding the "elites" for corruption, but when in power they out-corrupt them
- Not a coup, not even a riot (these guys are strolling inside the Capitol) but a dramatic, unbelievable failure of basic policing
- Replying to @SKalyvasLessons I learned from Greece #7: populist parties are protest movements; they often ask good questions but have neither answers nor clues
- Δεν δικαιολογώ αλλά μπορώ να καταλάβω όσους αντιδρούν στις αλλαγές στα ΑΕΙ γιατί δεν έχουν ζήσει κάτι καλύτερο. Είναι όμως εντελώς ασυγχώρητο να απολαμβάνεις τα προνόμια μιας Οξφόρδης και ταυτόχρονα να δίνεις αγώνα για να διαιωνίζεται το μπάχαλο στα ελληνικά πανεπιστήμια
- Replying to @SKalyvasLessons I learned from Greece #10: because populist govts have few achievements to sell, they manufacture polarization, division, hatred
- Replying to @SKalyvasLessons I learned from Greece #2: for a long time you think you've seen the worst, but you haven't seen anything yet
- Replying to @SKalyvasLessons I learned from Greece #4: when assessing a populist govt it's always hard to tell whether it's just incompetence or dark designs
- I am annoyed by the obsessive focus on whether Russia has legitimate security concerns about NATO expansion or whether the US can claim the moral high ground. Ukraine has instead the most pressing security concerns and clearly occupies the moral high ground
- Replying to @SKalyvasLessons I learned from Greece #3: the things that strike you as utterly shocking are applauded by others, perhaps even the majority
- Extremely honored and thankfulMany congratulations to @SKalyvas, who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy! Alongside 86 new Fellows, he joins a community of around 1,400 world-leading scholars and researchers working in the humanities and social sciences. politics.ox.ac.uk/news/stathis-k…
- Replying to @SKalyvasLessons I learned from Greece #9: populist govts won't end just because their record is terrible; they can last if opposition is in disarray
- Το πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου που ανακήρυξε τον Πούτιν δικτάτορα..., συγγνώμη διδάκτορα, ανακάλεσε τον τίτλο ή περιμένει και άλλους ομαδικούς τάφους;
- There is now total clarity, no matter how unimaginable things might seem. And they amount to this: The U.S. government has been taken over by a clique of extremists who have embarked on a process of regime change in the world's oldest democracy. 1/n
