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11.1 Introduction 11.1 Introduction
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11.2 The legacies: A ‘Quasi-Weberian’ Bureaucracy 11.2 The legacies: A ‘Quasi-Weberian’ Bureaucracy
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11.3 Three Deficits: Legitimacy, Efficiency, Institutionalization 11.3 Three Deficits: Legitimacy, Efficiency, Institutionalization
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11.4 Politicization and Symbiosis 11.4 Politicization and Symbiosis
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11.5 The Rise and Fall of the Modernization Narrative 11.5 The Rise and Fall of the Modernization Narrative
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11.6 Towards a Neo-Weberian State? 11.6 Towards a Neo-Weberian State?
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11.7 Drivers for Reform: Europeanization as an External Constraint 11.7 Drivers for Reform: Europeanization as an External Constraint
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11.8 Change and Continuity: Administrative Reform in Times of Crisis 11.8 Change and Continuity: Administrative Reform in Times of Crisis
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11.9 Memoranda Agenda and Selected Reforms 11.9 Memoranda Agenda and Selected Reforms
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11.10 Flaws, Resistance and Side Effects 11.10 Flaws, Resistance and Side Effects
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11.11 Conclusion 11.11 Conclusion
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References References
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11 Public Administration
Get accessCalliope Spanou, Professor of Administrative Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Published:10 November 2020
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Abstract
The chapter examines the legacies of Greek public administration and the drivers of modernization, from democratization in the 1980s, to Europeanization in the 1990s and the economic crisis starting in 2010. It describes public administration as a quasi-Weberian bureaucracy that is characterized by three interrelated deficits: legitimacy, efficiency, and institutionalization. These capture its most important weaknesses. Politicization which has been the most debated aspect, is seen as a form of symbiosis between politics and administration that tends to sideline efficiency and modernization requirements. The ‘low reform capacity’, which is usually attributed to its Napoleonic origins, contrasts vividly with the profusion of administrative reforms and the constant presence of the issue on the domestic political agenda. Administrative modernization progressed in the 1990s as part of Europeanization, though the then dominant new public management ideas have generally been resisted in favour of a neo-Weberian reform mix. However, critical deficiencies were exposed with the outbreak of the economic crisis in 2010. Subsequently, administrative reform became an extensive chapter of the three fiscal and macro-economic adjustment programmes. External pressure induced reform activity, but results appear uneven, depending on the reform area. Despite improvements, intrinsic and contextual factors linked to fiscal consolidation and the adjustment programmes’ conditionality account for the absence of radical transformation in the modus operandi of the political-administrative system.
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