Forum for Greece
| Forum for Greece | |
|---|---|
| founded in the year | 2010 |
| City | Athens |
| Country | Greece |
| Website | http://www.forumforgreece.gr/ |
| address | D. Aeropagitou 3, 11742 Athens |
| founder | Dora Bakoyannis |
| Networks | European Liberal Forum |
| Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties). | Austerity politics |
| Last revision | 19.06.2015 |
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The website can't be accessed since 2015-04.
»On July 13, 2010 a group of liberal-minded academics and professionals from all over Greece, headed by Greece’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms Dora Bakoyannis, founded the non-profit Association “Forum for Greece”. The “Forum for Greece” is a non-profit organization with liberal, democratic and reformist ideas, wishing to contribute to open and democratic developments in the European Union. The “Forum for Greece” has been registered under the Greek Law as a non for profit organization with VAT No EL997889575 with headquarters in Athens and a branch in Thessaloniki, at North Greece. The “Forum for Greece” is aiming to work in the liberal-thinking sector in Greece helping to form a critical mass of citizens aiming at a liberal reform of Greek society. Opinion polls suggest that conditions for such an Endeavour are ripe; taking under consideration the recent financial crisis in Greece, an impressively large section of the population embraces, for the first time, liberal ideas, such as the free Market, the reduction in the size of the state etc.«[1]
Organizational Structure and Funding
Address
D. Aeropagitou 3, 11742 Athens
People
Executive board
People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).
- Dimitrios Katsoudas, director
Topics
We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.
Semantic Fields
What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.
- Limitiation of public economic activities/sphere (Austerity Politics): argues for the reduction of the size of the state and reforms in this vein (the referenced URL is not accessible any longer, 2015-06)[2][3]
Notes
This section is used to note presumptions that need further investigation, as well as things that don't fit into other sections.
The website of the institute is closed to the public.
References