Understanding the Crisis in Greece

Mitsopoulos, Michael; Pelagidis, Theodore

doi:10.1057/9780230294752

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“…The 'skewness' suggests a detachment or insularity of the state administration from concerns of delivery or service (as in the NPM model) or indeed with financial discipline. Without a crisis, there had been limited pressure to change the administrative paradigm from a relatively set path: one that was compatible with the clientelistic favours and rent-seeking demands of Greek politics (Mitsopoulos and Pelagidis, 2011).…”

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External conditionality and the debt crisis: the ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece

Featherstone¹

2014

Journal of European Public Policy

114

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Leveraging domestic reform via external conditionality has become crucial to the rescues of European Union member states in the context of the eurozone crisis. The paper examines a critical case -Greece -and a problematic sector, reform of the central state administration to assess the impact of conditionality. Its empirical analysis presents new data on the trends in reform activity before and during Greece's debt crisis in order to compare the impact of the conditionality set by the 'Troika'; and, it examines the content and paradigmatic frames of the reforms pursued over time, to assess the extent of a break with the inherited domestic model. It highlights the contrast between aggregate activity and the substance of reform in sensitive areas. It attributes reform failures to the crafting of the conditionality strategy and to conflicting domestic interests, administrative traditions and cultural norms. The case highlights key challenges for the EU in its handling of the diversity of administrative systems across the euro-zone, an agenda neglected at Maastricht.

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External conditionality and the debt crisis: the ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece

Featherstone¹

2014

Journal of European Public Policy

114

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“…Mass clientelism flourished via political party structures and mechanisms (Lavdas, 2005;Mitsopoulos and Pelagidis, 2011;Pappas, 2013;Afonso et al, 2015), and throughout the 1990s and 2000s, led to an irrational expansion of the public sector along with inefficiencies and low productivity, unjustified increase of welfare spending, rampant tax evasion and misappropriation of social benefits or public land and normalised nepotism in recruitment practices (Pappas, 2013;Zartaloudis, 2014). Within the ESY, for example, more often than not hospital managers are appointed based on political party affiliation rather than qualifications (Liaropoulos et al, Page 5 of 23 2012) and hospital procurement contracts and the outsourcing of services to the private sector are exchanged for political support (Mpourdaras, 2017).…”

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Selective Consent and Dissent: Professional Response to Reform in the Post-Crisis Greek NHS

Bolton

Charalampopoulos

Skountridaki

2018

Work, Employment and Society

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Utilising the sociology of the professions as an analytical framework, the article explores the response of the Greek medical profession to state-imposed managerialism during times of economic recession and socio-political turbulence. It is argued that the case of Southern welfare states, permeated by clientelism and corruption, underpins a distinct form of professional-state relations, currently missing from relevant theoretical discussions. Rich qualitative data collected from practising hospital doctors in Greece reveals a willingness to concede elements of clinical autonomy in exchange for the minimisation of the role of a corrupt state in the organisation of the Greek National Health Service.

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“…Electoral support for parties had been based on building up support among discrete sections of the electorate, and consolidating it through the exercise of special privileges and access to patronage networks (Mitsopoulos andPelagidis, 2010, Gunther et al, 2006). A network of protected groups and veto players therefore held sway over government decision--making:…”

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Fiscal politics in time: pathways to fiscal consolidation in Ireland, Greece, Britain, and Spain, 1980–2012

Dellepiane-Avellaneda

Hardiman

2014

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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The comparative study of debt and fiscal consolidation has acquired a new focus in the wake of the global financial crisis. This paper re--evaluates the literature on fiscal consolidation that flourished during the 1980s and 1990s. The conventional approach to explanation is based on segmenting episodes of fiscal change into discrete observations. We argue that this misses the dynamic features of government strategy, especially in the choices made between expenditure--based and revenue--based fiscal consolidation strategies. We propose a focus on pathways rather than episodes of adjustment, to capture what Pierson terms 'politics in time'.A case--study approach facilitates analysis of complex causality that includes the structures of interest intermediation, the role of ideas in shaping the set of feasible policy choices, and the situation of national economies in the international political economy. We support our argument with qualitative data based on two case studies, Ireland and Greece, and with additional paired comparisons of Ireland with Britain, and Greece with Spain. Our conclusions suggest that the conventional literature, by excluding key political variables from consideration, may distort our understanding and result in misleading policy prescription.

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Understanding the Crisis in Greece

Cited by 116 publications

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External conditionality and the debt crisis: the ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece

External conditionality and the debt crisis: the ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece

Selective Consent and Dissent: Professional Response to Reform in the Post-Crisis Greek NHS

Fiscal politics in time: pathways to fiscal consolidation in Ireland, Greece, Britain, and Spain, 1980–2012

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