This book sets out the background to Greece's current political and economic crisis, examining its three decades of stopstart reforms and their political and institutional consequences.

Stathis N. Kalyvas is Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University. He is the author of The Logic of Violence in Civil War (2006) and The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (1996).

George Pagoulatos is Professor of European Politics and Economy at the Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Haridimos Tsoukas holds the Columbia Shipping Company Chair of Organization and Management at the University of Cyprus, and is Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He is editor-in-chief of Organization Studies, a European management journal.