The Europeanization of Greece Interest Politics and the Crises of Integration

An original analysis of the integration of Greece into the European Union, assessing the impact of EU membership on different sectors of the Greek economy. It examines the relationship from 1961, through its freezing as a result of the authoritarian Greek regime in 1967 and the negotiation of full membership in 1981. The book focusses on interest politics and shows how Greek sectoral corporatism has been transformed, largely as a result of EU membership. In reviewing the complex new relationships between organized business, trade unions and the Greek state, drawing on new institutionalist approaches to politics and political economy and neofunctionalist theories of EU integration.