Cortina, Borja M

Stander, J

Tzioli, K

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School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Faculty of Science and Engineering 2021-01-01 Julian Stander, Katerina Tzioli and Mario Cortina Borja: 200 years of Greek independence… and PMs J Stander School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics K Tzioli Borja M Cortina Let us know how access to this document benefits you General rights All content in PEARL is protected by copyright law. Author manuscripts are made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the details provided on the item record or document. In the absence of an open licence (e.g. Creative Commons), permissions for further reuse of content should be sought from the publisher or author. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact the library providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Follow this and additional works at: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/secam-research Recommended Citation Stander, J., Tzioli, K., & Cortina, B. (2021) 'Julian Stander, Katerina Tzioli and Mario Cortina Borja: 200 years of Greek independence… and PMs', Significance, 18(3), pp. 48-48. Retrieved from https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/secam-research/1504 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty of Science and Engineering at PEARL. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics by an authorized administrator of PEARL. For more information, please contact openresearch@plymouth.ac.uk. PEARLJulian Stander, Katerina Tzioli and Mario Cortina Borja: 200 years of Greekindependence… and PMsStander, J; Tzioli, K; Cortina, Borja MPublished in:SignificancePublication date:2021Document version:Other versionLink:Link to publication in PEARLCitation for published version (APA):Stander, J., Tzioli, K., & Cortina, B. M. (2021). Julian Stander, Katerina Tzioli and MarioCortina Borja: 200 years of Greek independence… and PMs. Significance, 18(3), 48-48.All content in PEARL is protected by copyright law. Author manuscripts are made available in accordance withpublisher policies. Wherever possible please cite the published version using the details provided on the itemrecord or document. In the absence of an open licence (e.g. Creative Commons), permissions for further reuseof contentshould be sought from the publisher or author.Download date: 31. Oct. 2024Two Hundred Years of Greek Independence: an exercise in political statistics…and PMs  Written by Julian Stander, Katerina Tzioli and Mario Cortina Borja   Thursday, 25 March 2021 saw Bicentenary Independence Day celebrations in Greece.  To mark the occasion, we perform an analysis of the life span of the country’s prime ministers (PMs) that is similar to our previous work https://www.significancemagazine.com/politics/581-visualising-ages-and-life-trajectories-of-prime-ministers-of-the-united-kingdom based on British PMs.  We divided our analysis into seven distinct political periods that followed Greece’s independence (see Figure 1 for details).  The first PM (or equivalent) in our dataset is Alexandros Mavrokordatos (1822–23, 1833–34, 1841, 1844 and 1854–55), while the current incumbent is Kyriakos Mitsotakis (2019–).  PMs holding office more than once are recorded in the data each time they take power, meaning that there are 192 entries coming from 106 people (all but one male), nine of whom are presently alive.    The youngest PM of Greece was Georgios Mavromichalis (PM 1827–28) who was around 27 years old when he took office.  The oldest was Xenophon Zolotas (1989–90) at 85.6 years.  The longest unbroken Premiership was that of Costas Simitis (1996–2004) of 8.13 years, followed by Andreas Papandreou (1981–1989) of 7.7 years.     Figure 1: Life trajectories of PMs of Greece with premiership periods in black.  The colours indicate the political period in which the first premiership took place.  Loess-based smoothers for age at death (upper) and for age at start of first premiership (lower) are shown using black curves.  The corresponding curves for UK PMs are shown using red dashed lines.  From the upper black curve in Figure 1 we see that life spans of Greek PMs tended to increase strongly from about 1832 to somewhat before 1900, and then again after 1935.  This is similar to the pattern for British PMs (the upper red dashed curve) – though the Brits generally lived longer than Greek PMs, with smaller differences across time.    

Julian Stander, Katerina Tzioli and Mario Cortina Borja: 200 years of Greek independence… and PMs

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Julian Stander, Katerina Tzioli and Mario Cortina Borja: 200 years of Greek independence… and PMs

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