(P/B) FROM STAGNATION TO FORCED ADJUSTMENT

Παρουσίαση

This book sets out the background to Greece's current political and economic crisis, examining its three decades of stopstart reforms and their political and institutional consequences.
Ever since Greece's 1974 transition to democracy there has been constant talk of reforms. Major changes in its economy, society and polity have attempted to bring Greek institutions and policies in line with more developed West European countries. Some reforms have come to fruition (creation of the NHS, Eurozone entry, banking liberalisation, some privatisations), others have recurred over the years (educational reform), while others have been spasmodic and elusive (pension and civil service reforms). The Greek malaise, widely felt and discussed in the country, has intensified the need for yet further reforms, yet attempts to introduce them has also fuelled systematic resistance from organised interest groups, which has led to a broadly perceived sense of inertia and stagnation, or at least truncated progress. This book sets out the background to Greece's current political and economic crisis, examining its three decades of stopstart reforms and their political and institutional consequences. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

List of Contributors
1. Introduction (Stathis Kalyvas, George Pagoulatos and Haridimos Tsoukas)
2. The Paradox Of Non-Reform in a Reform-Ripe Environment: Lessons From Post-Authoritarian Greece (Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos)
3. Assessing Reform Capacity in Greece: Applying Political Economy Perspectives (Kevin Featherstone and Dimitris Papadimitriou)
4. Reform That! Greece's Failing Reform Technology: Beyond 'Vested Interests' and 'Political Exchange' (Vassilis Monastiriotis and Andreas Antoniades)
5. Enacting Reforms: Towards an Enavtive Theory (Haridimos Tsoukas)
6. market Reforms in Greece, 1990-2088: External Constraints and Domestic Limitations (Nikos Christodoulakis)
7. The Pensions Merry-Go-Round: The End of a Cycle? (Platon Tinios)
8. Prerequisites to the Revival of Public Health Care in Greece (Manos Matsaganis)
9. Education Reforms in Greece: Aspects of Power and Politics (Apostolis Dimitropoulos)
10. The Quandary of Administrative Reform: Institutional and Performance Modernization (Calliope Spanou)
11. Policy Ideas and Foreign Policy Reform in Post-Cold War Greece (panayotis J. Tsakonas)
12. The 2010 Greek Economic Crisis and the Conditionality Programme (Michael Mitsopoulos and Theodore Pelagidis)
13. The Political Economy of Forced Reform and the 2010 Greek Economic Adjustment Programme (George Pagoulatos)
Appendix A: Data and Sources
Appendix B: A Brief Chronology of Social Security in Greece, 1930s-2010s
Notes
References
Index