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The politics of Greece

2 organisations recorded · six axes · every score sourced

Each organisation below is located on six independent measurements rather than a single left-to-right line: who owns productive assets, how social life should be ordered, how power is organised, at what level decisions are taken, who counts as a member, and by what means change is pursued.

What Greece argues about

EC−06 +04
CU−07 +09
AU−02 +09
SC+01 +08
ID−07 +06
CH−03 +03

Contested, live, or settled

The settled axis is usually more revealing than the contested one, and it is the one foreign coverage never reports — because a question nobody argues about generates no copy. A market where ownership is settled and membership is contested carries entirely different risks from one where the reverse is true, and both look identical in a headline.

AxisRangeSpanStateReading
CU · Social and cultural order−07 to +0916ContestedThis is what elections here are fought over.
ID · Rule of membership−07 to +0613ContestedThis is what elections here are fought over.
AU · Organisation of power−02 to +0911ContestedThis is what elections here are fought over.
EC · Economic organisation−06 to +0410ContestedThis is what elections here are fought over.
SC · Scale of decision+01 to +087LiveReal variation, but not the main dividing line.
CH · Method and tempo−03 to +036LiveReal variation, but not the main dividing line.

What the shape implies

Offered as an input to a judgement rather than as one. A coordinate describes a stated position and a governing record; it does not forecast, and competence and circumstance are not on any axis.

How far to trust this page

Organisations recorded2 — a thin sample. Ranges from fewer than five organisations describe the sample rather than the country.
Coded at high confidence0 of 2
Coded at low confidence0
Flagged contested0

The widest recorded disagreement here is on social and cultural order, spanning 16 points. The narrowest is on method and tempo, at 6. Where a country's politics is narrow on an axis, that question is settled and is not what its elections are about — which is usually invisible from outside, because foreign coverage reports the loud axis rather than the contested one.

Each bar shows the range that country's recorded organisations span on that axis, from −10 to +10. What each score means →

Organisations

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