Il passaggio di Syriza dall'opposizione al governo: dalla responsiveness alla responsibility?

In recent years, characterized by the economic and social crisis, the Greek party Syriza has been the most successful within the radical left family, passing from a peripheral position in the party system to the government. In a short time, Syriza had to deal with the functions of representation and government, respecting both the criteria of responsiveness and responsibility. Has Syriza managed to combine the two functions, reaching an equilibrium between the two criteria? In order to answer this question, the article retraces the entire evolution of Syriza, analysing its intentional choices aimed at votes, offices and policies and necessary for performing the two functions. These strategies and their outcome in terms of responsibility and responsiveness are examined in the light of external constraints, related to the electoral/parliamentary and government arenas, and of the internal ones, deriving from its own organization. The article concludes that Syriza, while having a well-defined political project, progressively succumbed to the adaptation to the environment and reduced its representative role, due to the external constraints to its government activity set by the multi-level context.