Prasopoulou, Elpida (2011) On Greek public administration. LSE Greece@LSE (25 Oct 2011). Website.
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Abstract
The stagnation of reforms and the problematic implementation of austerity measures in Greece revealed a rather painful reality. The Greek government apparatus is not operating properly. Thus, the country is facing a double problem; the political system is reluctant to assume the cost of radical reform while public administration is incapable of implementing and monitoring the necessary policies. However, aphorisms on the backwardness of the Greek public sector need to give their place in a systematic analysis of the process which led to the current situation. The major manifestations of public sector inefficiency – overreliance to a legalistic paradigm of action, absence of standardisation in administrative procedures, inability to set, monitor and evaluate the implementation of specific policies – did not occur overnight. They are the outcomes of the gradual domination of an autonomous state apparatus by heavily politicised practices which eventually came to substitute core bureaucratic operations. As such they deserve further consideration.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/greeceatlse/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | European Institute Hellenic Observatory |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2017 08:42 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2024 18:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/79457 |
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