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A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015

Surprise -This is a Great Time for Public Service!

By Michael S. Dukakis September 13, 1999 Editor’s note. We present here Michael Dukakis’ inaugural address at the Michael S. Dukakis Chair for Public Policy and Service to close out this phase in the life of Politis...

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Citizens hold the center

By Nikos Konstandaras Greece’s future depends on its revival beginning before its people’s patience runs out, on the economy stabilizing before the next period of political unrest undoing all that has been done. At this ris...

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Blockupy

Newsworthy, I think… “Our main goal is to show that the regime that is governing Europe through this crisis is neither democratically legitimate nor acting in any responsible way for the people. It’s really workin...

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Citizenship in Greece in questions

By Despina Ventouri Despite the fact that the concept of citizenship has roots in ancient Greece, one must not confuse this with more modern definitions and forms of citizenship. First, citizenship and democracy were invented i...

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We can’t help it!

By David Wisner I often tell my politics students that people have a natural predisposition to act and think politically. What we do with this is the great challenge of contemporary citizenship and civic education. Two recent a...

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A public service announcement for owners of uninsured vehicles

By Fotinie Efstratiadou A law pertaining to uninsured vehicles has recently been passed in the Greek Parliament and will enter into force on April 15, 2013. The law concerns owners of vehicles that will be found to be uninsur...

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Greek islands for sale

Excerpts from an article by Helena Smith in today’s Guardian about the projected sale of a privately owned chain of islands in the Greek Ionian Sea. “The suitor is one of the world’s wealthiest men; the locati...

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Lustration and the Arab spring

By David Wisner The Dukakis Center hosted well-known Greek blogger Kostas Kallergis in April for a talk on lustration as a means of dealing with corruption in Greek politics. Hearkening back to attempts in various countries in ...

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Saying of the day: 3/31/13

“Obama is very possibly a world-historical political figure, and until those who oppose him come to grips with this fact, they will get him wrong every time.” — John Podhoretz

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Saying of the day: 6/20/13

“J’ai mal à la Grèce.” Angélique Kourounis

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