Reforms and Collective Action in a Clientelist System: Greece during the Mitsotakis Administration (1990–93)

Trantidis, Aris

doi:10.1080/13608746.2014.893644

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“…For instance, mass party organisations can facilitate clientelistic exchange because they provide the social networks through which the exchange can take place, and where supporters can be mobilised and rewarded (Belloni et al 1979: 255). Networks of clientelistic exchange can also entail tight organisational connections between parties and mass-based organised interests, such as trade unions, where the electoral support of trade union members is exchanged for future jobs, pay increases, or benefits targeted at specific occupations (Trantidis 2014). We do not argue that large party memberships or organic connections between parties and unions necessarily lead to the development of clientelistic linkages, but that clientelistic strategies need these structures to develop into "mass clientelism" as a system to distribute state resources.…”

Section: Clientelistic Linkages and Fiscal Austeritymentioning

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How party linkages shape austerity politics: clientelism and fiscal adjustment in Greece and Portugal during the eurozone crisis

Afonso¹,

Zartaloudis²,

Papadopoulos³

2014

Journal of European Public Policy

120

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Drawing on an analysis of austerity reforms in Greece and Portugal during the sovereign debt crisis from 2009 onwards, we show how the nature of the linkages between parties and citizens shapes party strategies of fiscal retrenchment. We argue that parties which rely to a greater extent on the selective distribution of state resources to mobilise electoral support (clientelistic linkages) are more reluctant to agree to fiscal retrenchment because their own electoral survival depends on their ability to control state budgets to reward clients. In Greece, where parties relied extensively on these clientelistic linkages, austerity reforms have been characterised by recurring conflicts and disagreements between the main parties, as well as a fundamental transformation of the party system. By contrast, in Portugal, where parties relied less on clientelistic strategies, austerity reforms have been more consensual because fiscal retrenchment challenged to a lesser extent the electoral base of the mainstream parties.

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Section: Clientelistic Linkages and Fiscal Austeritymentioning

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How party linkages shape austerity politics: clientelism and fiscal adjustment in Greece and Portugal during the eurozone crisis

Afonso¹,

Zartaloudis²,

Papadopoulos³

2014

Journal of European Public Policy

120

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“…The High Court stipulated that the areas planned with this specific tool should be proposed by the statutory plan. This failure was also associated with a general failure to liberalise and privatise crucial economic sectors, which had, up until then, been under state control (Trantidis, 2014). The reintroduction of this tool through a similar one called PERPO (“Special Regulation Planning Areas”) by the later Law 2508/1997 of the PASOK government, and the provision for its designation by a GUP, did not made the tool more successful.…”

Section: Public Land Policy and Urban Planning Reforms From The 1980smentioning

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Public land policy and urban planning in Greece: Diachronic continuities and abrupt reversals in a context of crisis

Vitopoulou

Yiannakou

2018

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Land ownership determines fundamental interests, prescribing a framework of alliances and oppositions around its development and use. The public sector constitutes one of the main categories of large landowners, although this type of ownership takes more than one form, due to the wide variety of public sector bodies holding property. Public land management became one of the focuses of austerity policies in many European countries after the burst of economic crisis in 2008–2009, externally imposed in those countries that went through bailout programmes. In Greece, the history of land policy shows that a fundamental objective of state policy was the distribution and liquidation of public land, a policy that contributed to the formation of an extensive system of small land ownership. From 2010 onwards, a plethora of formal legislation sought to accelerate development procedures for the remaining large-scale public property, as a background resource to attract large-scale, so-called “strategic”, investments. This paper explores the critical characteristics and outcomes of the reforms to transform public land policy, identifying the interactions with urban planning, before and during the economic crisis. Taking a longer temporal view, the paper highlights the entrenched relationships existing between public land policy, urban planning and property development processes and their significance in the diachronic continuities often concealed in major policy reversals and reforms. It argues that ultimately there is a lack of a coherent and sustainable public property valorisation policy, being deprived of any institutional innovation for new forms of urban development, as well as of social acceptance.

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“…In all of the above variants of politicisation public administrators are expected to come and go together with the incumbent who selected them. The inter-relation of power between the political patron and the appointed client-administrator can become detrimental for managing an effective public administration reform agenda (Trantidis, 2014).…”

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Essays on contemporary patronage

Papaioannou¹

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Η διδακτορική διατριβή αποτελείται από τρία επιστημονικά δοκίμια που ερευνούν διαφορετικά φάσματα του φαινομένου των πελατειακών σχέσεων στην δημόσια διοίκηση. Συγκεκριμένα ερευνώ τον πολιτικό παρεμβατισμό στην επιλογή και προώθηση εργαζομένων στον δημόσιο τομέα. Στο πρώτο δοκίμιο, αναλύω τον μηχανισμό προέλευσης των πελατειακών σχέσεων με την συσχέτιση της έντασης βάσει του βαθμού αποκέντρωσης στην πολιτική διοίκηση που επικράτησε κατά την διάρκεια της ανεξαρτησίας κάθε αναγνωρισμένης χώρας. Στο δεύτερο δοκίμιο εξετάζω τις επιπτώσεις έντονης πελατειακής επιλογής με μη αξιοκρατικούς όρους στα στατιστικά τμήματα των χωρών και την ποιότητα των παραγόμενων στατιστικών δεδομένων που αποστέλλει σε διεθνείς στατιστικούς καταλόγους. Στο τρίτο δοκίμιο πραγματοποιώ ποιοτική έρευνα μέσω συνεντεύξεων σε πρόσωπα ενδιαφέροντος στην Ελλάδα, όπου και ερμηνεύω την συσχέτιση της οικονομικής κρίσης και των πολιτικών λιτότητας με την ένταση και την έκταση του φαινομένου της πολιτικής επιλογής προσωπικού σε δομές του δημόσιου τομέα.

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Reforms and Collective Action in a Clientelist System: Greece during the Mitsotakis Administration (1990–93)

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

How party linkages shape austerity politics: clientelism and fiscal adjustment in Greece and Portugal during the eurozone crisis

How party linkages shape austerity politics: clientelism and fiscal adjustment in Greece and Portugal during the eurozone crisis

Public land policy and urban planning in Greece: Diachronic continuities and abrupt reversals in a context of crisis

Essays on contemporary patronage

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