The national parliament, the symbol of representative and competitive democracy in Greece, has become purely symbolic and procedural in the way it votes for its austerity laws. External pressures ...

The national parliament, the symbol of representative and competitive democracy in Greece, has become purely symbolic and procedural in the way it votes for its austerity laws. External pressures ...

"Our country is certainly more democratic than the United States," the Crown Prince of Greece once said to me, in the midst of a conversation about the political institutions of his country.