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From Austerity to the Pandemic and Back Again? Lockdown Politics in Greece
Von der Austerität zur Pandemie und wieder zurück? Lockdown-Politik in Griechenland
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Abstract This paper provides an analysis of the lockdown politics implemented in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. It argues that Greece's pandemic politics deepened the crisis of the familistic social model that resulted from the austerity policies of the last decade. Although caring for... mehr
This paper provides an analysis of the lockdown politics implemented in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. It argues that Greece's pandemic politics deepened the crisis of the familistic social model that resulted from the austerity policies of the last decade. Although caring for the family became a high priority during the pandemic, resources for families and households did not increase. Likewise, while "essential" workers were much praised by officials, their wages and working conditions hardly improved. The COVID-19 pandemic crisis management in Greece has two peculiarities: First, the country entered the pandemic after a painful decade of austerity, interrupting the fragile, long-awaited economic recovery. Second, given the inadequate state of the public healthcare system after a decade of austerity, the lockdowns in Greece were among the strictest in Europe. Rather than being the result of state preparedness, these lockdowns can be interpreted as an acknowledgment of state failure.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Griechenland; Epidemie; Gesundheitspolitik; Gesundheitsversorgung; Public Health; Krisenmanagement; Sparpolitik; Sozialpolitik; Staatsversagen; soziale Ungleichheit; Reproduktion
Klassifikation
Gesundheitspolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
COVID-19; pandemic; lockdown politics; healthcare; social reproduction
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 143-162
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 4
Heftthema
Forum: Caring in Times of Global Pandemic
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)