is the glass ‘half full’ or ‘half empty’? the political science profession and young academics in greece

This article argues that after the initial expansion of departments and postgraduate courses during and after the mid-1990s in Greece, we are now witnessing the first signs that the academic environment is unable to absorb young academics entering the field. A long ‘waiting list’ of young PhDs, combined with a lack of public funding for new posts, creates a rather negative picture for the future of young Greek political scientists.