The Metapolitefsi was a brief phase in Greek political history that marked the transition from dictatorship to the most stable democracy modern Greece has known. It is also a long period associated with the Europeanization of the country, its organic integration into a broader European framework, which in the collective consciousness was identified with modernization, prosperity, and a higher culture.

Finally, it is a period that signifies economic, social, and cultural transformations in a globalized environment. "Histories of the Metapolitefsi" is a collective endeavor of historians and social scientists attempting to map it in all these dimensions and in various fields, politics, economy, society, culture, over the fifty years that have passed.

It is the product of a long-term effort and starts from the viewpoint that human reality can only be understood when we consider how complex and intricate it is, and furthermore, that one cannot isolate politics from the economy, society from politics.