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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
[journal article]

Markantonatou, Maria

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... view more

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.... view less

Keywords
Greece; epidemic; health policy; health care; public health; crisis management (econ., pol.); austerity policy; social policy; failure of the state; social inequality; reproduction

Classification
Health Policy
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture

Free Keywords
COVID-19; pandemic; lockdown politics; healthcare; social reproduction

Document language
English

Publication Year
2021

Page/Pages
p. 143-162

Journal
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 4

Issue topic
Forum: Caring in Times of Global Pandemic

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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