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Tag Archives: Accountability
May 28 2015
Greek Media in Disarray
Comments Off on Greek Media in DisarrayBy Maria Kyriakidou There is perhaps no other field that better illustrates how deeply ingrained clientelism is in Greek political culture than the media sector. Politicians, media and business have long been operating as a ‘triangle of power’, where private … Continue reading
Posted by: May 28, 2015
Tagged with: Accountability, Corruption, ERT, Greek media, Journalism, media, Media ownership, Media Systems, SYRIZA
May 7 2015
The Double Death of Europe
5 CommentsBy Adrian Pabst Introduction: the broken promise of peace and prosperity The continual crisis in the Eurozone and in Ukraine poses the most serious danger to Europe since the darkest days of the Cold War. Economic devastation in the south … Continue reading
Posted by: May 7, 2015
Tagged with: Accountability, Crisis, European identity, European integration, European Public Sphere, European Union, Euroscepticism, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis, Inequality, Islamic State, Nationalism, peace dividend, populism, Ukraine, unemployment
Jun 10 2014
Mind the Gaps: The Political Consequences of the Great Recession in Europe
5 CommentsBy Diego Muro and Guillem Vidal The financial crisis that started in 2008 had an unanticipated magnitude. What at first glance appeared as a manageable frailty of the financial sector rapidly derived into a Great Recession with on-going continuity into … Continue reading
Posted by: June 10, 2014
Tagged with: Accountability, democratic deficit, ECB, Gini, Gini coefficient, Inequality, legitimacy
Aug 30 2013
The Quality of Democracy in Spain Took a Great Leap Backwards in 2012
3 CommentsBy Luis Bouza García Since 2008, the left-leaning Fundación Alternativas has produced an annual report evaluating the quality of democracy in Spain. This study relies on a survey of social scientists familiar with Spanish politics and society, and has the … Continue reading
Posted by: August 30, 2013
Tagged with: Accountability, Corruption, Democracy
Aug 23 2013
The Myth of Journalistic Impartiality under Austerity
2 CommentsBy Yiannis Baboulias “Stuff is biased” lamented a Greek journalist after a piece of mine was published in the New Statesman last February. In the piece, I was making the case that four young anarchists who had been arrested after … Continue reading
Posted by: August 23, 2013
Tagged with: Accountability, austerity, Freedom of the press, Greece, Greek economy, Journalism, media, Media Systems
Jun 12 2013
The bumpy road to transparency in Spain
3 CommentsBy José Javier Olivas and Fabrizio Scrollini* The current Euro Crisis has unveiled many political and institutional deficiencies in Spain. Among them, the lack of transparency and free access to public information is one of the most serious. In modern democracies … Continue reading
Posted by: June 12, 2013
Tagged with: access to information, Accountability, information regulation, Ley de transparencia, Spanish civil-society, Transparency
May 31 2013
Managing the Crisis through Secrecy?
Comments Off on Managing the Crisis through Secrecy?By Outi Keranen Transparency and access to information in crisis-ridden Europe have become sparse currency. While Brussels aims to tackle tax evasion through openness and more effective exchange of information, the uninvestigated claims of money laundering in Cyprus and the … Continue reading
Posted by: May 31, 2013
Tagged with: Accountability, European Public Sphere, Finnish politics, Greco-Finnish, Information, Transparency