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Defining public service in a post-democratic age

By Jacey McCowan University of Texas at San Antonio American College of Thessaloniki From the Editor: Jacey McCowan spent the Spring 2015 semester as a study abroad student at ACT and an intern at the Dukakis Center, where she ...
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Do we want our politics to be nimble?

In an article published this past weekend on TechCrunch, Michael Papay and David Timby ask what politics cannot work at the swift pace that contemporary business, aided by developments in information technology, can. In this hi...
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Fascists go to school

By Damian Mac Con Uladh The growth in popularity of Golden Dawn in the country’s secondary schools and the wider problem of how to deal with fascism in the classroom is the subject of a conference at Athens University tha...
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Only in Thessaloniki…

  By Diego Salas Things about Greece, Thessaloniki 1. Things I that I never thought I would encounter People in general have at least a basic level of English. Taxis are incredibly cheap. People treat you like a brother th...
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The new sick man of Europe

By David Wisner “The European Union is the new sick man of Europe. The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the principal casualty of the euro crisis. The European project now stands in ...
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Exclusion from the future

By Paschos Mandravelis* Ultimately, youth unemployment is not just a Greek phenomenon, nor is it limited to Europe. It is a global threat to stability and to our societies’ ability to reproduce. Worse than the fact that 13 pe...
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The story of regulatory reform in Greece

By Efi Stefopoulou Regulatory policy may be defined broadly as an explicit, dynamic, and consistent “government-wide” policy to pursue high quality regulation. Greek regulatory policy has been subject to a long-lasting refo...
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Why serve?

By David Wisner I confess. I am a Europeanist and a self-conscious product of what we call the Western tradition. I  dreamed as a teenager of studying in Florence, the Florence of the Italian Renaissance. I later came of age i...
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Saying of the day: 6/19/13

    “We didn’t decide that Greece was in trouble; Greece was in trouble…” — Jean-Claude Juncker
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The US is not Greece; or, beware of economists bearing regressions

Matthew O’Brien says in this month’s Atlantic, “No, the United States will never, ever turn into Greece.” What he means is that, contrary to the view of certain economists, the US will never “spend...
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