POLITICAL CLEAVAGES IN GREECE 1981-2019: - THE BRAHMIN LEFT AND THE EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

Similarly, the Great Stagflation of the 1970s was related to the collapse of the military junta in 1974, leading to the beginning of the Greek post-authoritarian era (“metapolitefsi”). [...] In particular, we match the 2002 wave to the 2000 elections, the 2004 wave to the 2004 elections and the 2008 wave to the 2007 elections. [...] On the other, the 2023 double elections were the first time, since 1981, that the centre of gravity in the Greek party system shifted from the left to the right. [...] The red line shows the difference between the percent of the vote for left-wing parties among the voters coming from the top 10% of the income distribution, to the rest of the population. [...] Perhaps counter-intuitively, it seems that the positive cleavage is not a result of the appeal of the main left-wing party PASOK in the highly educated, but rather because of the support that the highly educated show towards the radical left.