The Greek Golden Dawn: a well-established party or hanging by a thread?
In the 2014 European Parliament elections, the extreme far right Golden Dawn emerged as Greece’s third largest party. The party continues to rally support in local and regional as well as European elections despite a period of turmoil which has seen the leader and MPs jailed on charges of running a criminal organisation. Is this sustainment of popularity a sign of a now well-established party, or is Golden Dawn temporarily grabbing on the coattails of the established parties’ illegitimation by the economic crisis? Professor Antonis A. Ellinas seeks to elaborate on this question in his