Dimitrios A Sotiropoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 281351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitrios A Sotiropoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitrios A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sotiropoulos |
| SIGNATURE | SOTIROPOULOS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7528-0583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Regulatory Governance in the Era of Populist Ascendancy: A Tug‐of‐War Between Independent Public Authorities and Central Government in Greece
While independent public authorities in Greece have mushroomed over time, they have to an extent been unable to fulfill their mission, owing to a context of acute political party polarization and political distrust in which these authorities operate. Governments have initially tended to support the establishment of independent authorities, but later to disapprove of their initiatives. Relations between the authorities and the government have evol…
Democratisation in Southern Europe: A Contingent or Inevitable Process
The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States
Eltion Meka and Stefano Bianchini: The Challenges of Democratization and Reconciliation in the Post-Yugoslav Space
Article Eltion Meka and Stefano Bianchini: The Challenges of Democratization and Reconciliation in the Post-Yugoslav Space was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 69, issue 4)
Public Administration in Europe North and South: Enduring Differences and New Cleavages?
North and South European governments and public administrations have been subjected to similar external stimuli, such as globalization and Europeanization, and managerial trends, such as the New Public Management approach. Yet, until the onset of the global financial crisis and later the Eurozone crisis, Southern public administrations differed a lot from their Northern counterparts in terms of relations between bureaucrats and politicians and or…
Socioeconomic Fragmentation and Exclusion in Greece under the Crisis
Political party–interest group linkages in Greece before and after the onset of the economic crisis
Greece’s traditional system of state corporatism and polarized party system were the bases of very tight linkages between interest groups and political parties in the post-authoritarian period. Owing to governing policy shifts which negatively affected the strongest interest groups, a weakening of such tight linkages occurred, culminating during the economic crisis, when interest groups challenged austerity policies. This confrontation helped bri…
Through the Lens of Social Constructionism: The Development of Innovative Anti-Corruption Policies and Practices in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania, 2000–2015
The past decade has witnessed two distinct yet interconnected developments in the understanding, policy and practice of corruption studies. On the one hand, corruption has progressively been constructed as a major threat to economic and social development through the use of deceivingly simplistic Western-centric definitions,1 awareness campaigns and international perception-indexes that create the illusion of measuring real levels of corruption. …
Austerity and the Third Sector in Greece: Civil Society at the European Frontline
Children of the dictatorship: Student resistance, cultural politics, and the ‘long 1960s’ in Greece
The fall of the Greek Colonels’ regime in 1974, one of the first events to signal the ‘third wave of democratization’, namely the transition from authoritarian rule in southern Europe, Latin Americ
Civil society and transitions in the western Balkans
Civil society development is most needed in societies where democracy functions in a superficial manner, namely where it is reduced to a little more than an electoral process allowing for governmen
Southern European Governments and Public Bureaucracies in the Context of Economic Crisis
Before the economic crisis erupted, the public bureaucracies of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain had embarked on public administration reforms reflecting Neo-Weberian and New Public Management influences. After the onset of the crisis, which functioned as a critical juncture, reforms of public administration and the structures and functions of government decision-making were hastily effected. Administrative reforms reflected almost exclusively N…
The Social Effects of the Economic Crisis in the Western Balkans: A Case Study of Unreconstructed Welfare Regimes
The recent economic crisis has led to a deterioration of the social situation in the Western Balkans. Already before the crisis, a combination of war and conflict, legacies of economic underdevelopment, labour market problems, inadequate social expenditure, and faltering economic growth had produced lingering poverty, unemployment, and income inequality. These trends can be explained in the context of fragmented and uneven welfare regimes that do…
International Aid to Southern Europe in the Early Postwar Period: The Cases of Greece and Italy
After World War II, Greece and Italy experienced a Left-Right political polarization and a repetition of earlier patterns of political patronage. Both countries received international aid, including emergency relief, interim loans, and Marshall Plan funds. By the beginning of the 1950s, Italy had progressed from stabilization to reconstruction and then to development, while Greece progressed belatedly with reconstruction and did not achieve stabi…
The Odyssey of Administrative Reforms in Greece, 1981–2009: A Tale of Two Reform Paths
In Greece, two distinct reform paths led to institutional building and economic managerial types of reform. These two reforms, with the exception of the period 1996–2004, when both institutional and economic reforms were attempted, did not attract the same degree of attention. Institutional reforms were more successful than attempts at managerial reforms; reform implementation on the other hand varies. Economic and managerial reforms can be obser…
Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance
This article analyses the attitudes of Greek political elites towards the European Union (EU) and compares them with the views of public opinion. Data were collected in 2007 through personal interviews with 90 MPs and a public opinion survey (IntUne project). The attitudes of MPs are discussed with regard to three dimensions of European citizenship: identity, representation, and scope of governance. There are traditionalists, formalists, and libe…
Revisiting the Debate on National Identities in Contemporary Greece
The Authoritarian Past and Contemporary Greek Democracy
In Greece after the 1974 democratic transition the Karamanlis government prioritised political stability and foreign policy issues over transitional justice. The punitive process in the army was extensive, while in the police, the gendarmerie, the justice system and the universities the process was less comprehensive. Greek socialists demanded a more thoroughgoing ‘cleansing’ of the state apparatus than some Greek communists. In the following dec…
Explaining the Attitudes of Parliamentarians towards European Integration in Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia: Party Affiliation, ‘Left–Right’ Self-placement or Country Origin
Childcare in Post-Communist Welfare States: The Case of Bulgaria
In transition societies such as contemporary Bulgaria, the legacy of the communist past in childcare policy is reflected in the state-centred mentality of officials, the tendency towards over-regulation and the complex and inefficient relations among multiple state actors. The traditional approach to children as objects of protection rather than as subjects of rights still prevails. Efforts to modernise legislation and to introduce innovative chi…
Old Problems and New Challenges: The Enduring and Changing Functions of Southern European State Bureaucracies 1
Despite variations among Southern European state bureaucracies, there are certain common features of the Southern European bureaucratic model, such as political clientelism at the higher echelons of the bureaucracy and at the entry level; an uneven distribution of resources and infrastructure in the public sector; legal rigidity and excessive legalism; and—with the exception of Spain—lack of an administrative elite. Corruption and inefficiency ar…
Is the Glass ‘Half Full’ or ‘Half Empty’? The Political Science Profession and Young Academics in Greece
This article argues that after the initial expansion of departments and postgraduate courses during and after the mid-1990s in Greece, we are now witnessing the first signs that the academic environment is unable to absorb young academics entering the field. A long ‘waiting list’ of young PhDs, combined with a lack of public funding for new posts, creates a rather negative picture for the future of young Greek political scientists
Positive and negative social capital and the uneven development of civil society in Southeastern Europe
This article surveys alternative conceptions of social capital and presents empirical findings from research conducted in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia – Montenegro and Romania. A conceptual distinction between positive and negative social capital is made and emphasis is placed on inter‐regional variation among South East European countries and on inter‐ethnic aspects of social capital. Positive social capital is a necessary condition for developin…
The EU’s Impact on the Greek Welfare State: Europeanization on Paper
For the past 25 years in Greece, welfare-state reforms have been the result of the interplay between domestic politics and European influences. While pension reform has been aborted, some targeted and smallscale reforms have proven more successful. Wholesale changes of the welfare system have met with strong resistance from private interests and bureaucratic mechanisms. The EU’s impact has mostly been felt in the policies of employment, vocationa…
Southern European Public Bureaucracies in Comparative Perspective
The public bureaucracies of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain may be set apart from the rest of West European bureaucracies. Until the mid-1990s, the former were distinguished from the latter by certain interrelated structural characteristics. These characteristics were extended politicisation of the top administrative ranks; enduring patronage patterns in recruitment to the public sector; uneven distribution of human resources; formalism and leg…
Southern European Public Bureaucracies in Comparative Perspective
The public bureaucracies of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain may be set apart from the rest of West European bureaucracies. Until the mid-1990s, the former were distinguished from the latter by certain interrelated structural characteristics. These characteristics were extended politicisation of the top administrative ranks; enduring patronage patterns in recruitment to the public sector; uneven distribution of human resources; formalism and leg…
The Odyssey of Administrative Reforms in Greece, 1981–2009: A Tale of Two Reform Paths
In Greece, two distinct reform paths led to institutional building and economic managerial types of reform. These two reforms, with the exception of the period 1996–2004, when both institutional and economic reforms were attempted, did not attract the same degree of attention. Institutional reforms were more successful than attempts at managerial reforms; reform implementation on the other hand varies. Economic and managerial reforms can be obser…
The EU’s Impact on the Greek Welfare State: Europeanization on Paper
For the past 25 years in Greece, welfare-state reforms have been the result of the interplay between domestic politics and European influences. While pension reform has been aborted, some targeted and smallscale reforms have proven more successful. Wholesale changes of the welfare system have met with strong resistance from private interests and bureaucratic mechanisms. The EU’s impact has mostly been felt in the policies of employment, vocationa…
Ministerial Elites in Greece, 1843-2001: A Synthesis of Old Sources and New Data
The study of Greek political elites used to be concentrated on parliamentary deputies. Ministerial elites were rarely studied. In this article, we take a long-term view of the Greek ministerial elites, studying their socio-political profile from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We find that this profile does not change so much with regime change, as with political developments at certain time points within specific regime periods. At th…
Southern European Governments and Public Bureaucracies in the Context of Economic Crisis
Before the economic crisis erupted, the public bureaucracies of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain had embarked on public administration reforms reflecting Neo-Weberian and New Public Management influences. After the onset of the crisis, which functioned as a critical juncture, reforms of public administration and the structures and functions of government decision-making were hastily effected. Administrative reforms reflected almost exclusively N…
The Authoritarian Past and Contemporary Greek Democracy
In Greece after the 1974 democratic transition the Karamanlis government prioritised political stability and foreign policy issues over transitional justice. The punitive process in the army was extensive, while in the police, the gendarmerie, the justice system and the universities the process was less comprehensive. Greek socialists demanded a more thoroughgoing ‘cleansing’ of the state apparatus than some Greek communists. In the following dec…
Political party–interest group linkages in Greece before and after the onset of the economic crisis
Greece’s traditional system of state corporatism and polarized party system were the bases of very tight linkages between interest groups and political parties in the post-authoritarian period. Owing to governing policy shifts which negatively affected the strongest interest groups, a weakening of such tight linkages occurred, culminating during the economic crisis, when interest groups challenged austerity policies. This confrontation helped bri…
Through the Lens of Social Constructionism: The Development of Innovative Anti-Corruption Policies and Practices in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania, 2000–2015
The past decade has witnessed two distinct yet interconnected developments in the understanding, policy and practice of corruption studies. On the one hand, corruption has progressively been constructed as a major threat to economic and social development through the use of deceivingly simplistic Western-centric definitions,1 awareness campaigns and international perception-indexes that create the illusion of measuring real levels of corruption. …
Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance
This article analyses the attitudes of Greek political elites towards the European Union (EU) and compares them with the views of public opinion. Data were collected in 2007 through personal interviews with 90 MPs and a public opinion survey (IntUne project). The attitudes of MPs are discussed with regard to three dimensions of European citizenship: identity, representation, and scope of governance. There are traditionalists, formalists, and libe…
Bureaucrats and Politicians: A Case Study of the Determinants of Perceptions of Conflict and Patronage in the Greek Bureaucracy under Pasok Rule, 1981-1989
Afin de savoir si des determinants organisationnels ou sociopolitiques ont un effet sur les perceptions des fonctionnaires de bureaucraties, l'A. presente une etude empirique sur les fonctionnaires d'Etat en Grece. La bureaucratie grecque moderne est mise dans une perspective historique et est presentee comme un cas de bureaucratie politisee, hantee par le nepotisme de parti. L'article s'attache a l'etude d'un echantillon de hauts fonctionnaires …
The Trajectory of Post‐communist Welfare State Development: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania
Governments of countries undergoing a post‐communist transition face the dilemma of balancing conflicting demands for greater economic efficiency (to achieve a successful transition to a market system) with demands for enhanced social protection (to legitimize regime change through a visible improvement in living standards which includes vulnerable groups). This paper analyses the transition in Bulgaria and Romania. Unlike other European countrie…
Democratisation in Southern Europe: A Contingent or Inevitable Process
Diglossia and the National Language Question in Modern Greece
The Social Effects of the Economic Crisis in the Western Balkans: A Case Study of Unreconstructed Welfare Regimes
The recent economic crisis has led to a deterioration of the social situation in the Western Balkans. Already before the crisis, a combination of war and conflict, legacies of economic underdevelopment, labour market problems, inadequate social expenditure, and faltering economic growth had produced lingering poverty, unemployment, and income inequality. These trends can be explained in the context of fragmented and uneven welfare regimes that do…
Revisiting the Debate on National Identities in Contemporary Greece
Explaining the Attitudes of Parliamentarians towards European Integration in Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia: Party Affiliation, ‘Left–Right’ Self-placement or Country Origin
Childcare in Post-Communist Welfare States: The Case of Bulgaria
In transition societies such as contemporary Bulgaria, the legacy of the communist past in childcare policy is reflected in the state-centred mentality of officials, the tendency towards over-regulation and the complex and inefficient relations among multiple state actors. The traditional approach to children as objects of protection rather than as subjects of rights still prevails. Efforts to modernise legislation and to introduce innovative chi…
Is the Glass ‘Half Full’ or ‘Half Empty’? The Political Science Profession and Young Academics in Greece
This article argues that after the initial expansion of departments and postgraduate courses during and after the mid-1990s in Greece, we are now witnessing the first signs that the academic environment is unable to absorb young academics entering the field. A long ‘waiting list’ of young PhDs, combined with a lack of public funding for new posts, creates a rather negative picture for the future of young Greek political scientists
Noun morphology of modern demotic Greek: A descriptive analysis
Diglossia and the National Language Question in Modern Greece
Bureaucrats and Politicians: A Case Study of the Determinants of Perceptions of Conflict and Patronage in the Greek Bureaucracy under Pasok Rule, 1981-1989
Afin de savoir si des determinants organisationnels ou sociopolitiques ont un effet sur les perceptions des fonctionnaires de bureaucraties, l'A. presente une etude empirique sur les fonctionnaires d'Etat en Grece. La bureaucratie grecque moderne est mise dans une perspective historique et est presentee comme un cas de bureaucratie politisee, hantee par le nepotisme de parti. L'article s'attache a l'etude d'un echantillon de hauts fonctionnaires …
Administrative Science and Organizational Theory in Greece
From an omnipresent and strong to a big and weak state: Democratization and state reform in Southeastern Europe 1
An update and conclusions
(2002). An update and conclusions. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies: Vol. 2, Is Southeastern Europe Doomed to Instability? A Regional Perspective, pp. 226-234
New Approaches to Post-Authoritarian Greek Politics
Ministerial Elites in Greece, 1843-2001: A Synthesis of Old Sources and New Data
The study of Greek political elites used to be concentrated on parliamentary deputies. Ministerial elites were rarely studied. In this article, we take a long-term view of the Greek ministerial elites, studying their socio-political profile from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We find that this profile does not change so much with regime change, as with political developments at certain time points within specific regime periods. At th…
The Trajectory of Post‐communist Welfare State Development: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania
Governments of countries undergoing a post‐communist transition face the dilemma of balancing conflicting demands for greater economic efficiency (to achieve a successful transition to a market system) with demands for enhanced social protection (to legitimize regime change through a visible improvement in living standards which includes vulnerable groups). This paper analyses the transition in Bulgaria and Romania. Unlike other European countrie…
The EU’s Impact on the Greek Welfare State: Europeanization on Paper
For the past 25 years in Greece, welfare-state reforms have been the result of the interplay between domestic politics and European influences. While pension reform has been aborted, some targeted and smallscale reforms have proven more successful. Wholesale changes of the welfare system have met with strong resistance from private interests and bureaucratic mechanisms. The EU’s impact has mostly been felt in the policies of employment, vocationa…
Southern European Public Bureaucracies in Comparative Perspective
The public bureaucracies of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain may be set apart from the rest of West European bureaucracies. Until the mid-1990s, the former were distinguished from the latter by certain interrelated structural characteristics. These characteristics were extended politicisation of the top administrative ranks; enduring patronage patterns in recruitment to the public sector; uneven distribution of human resources; formalism and leg…
Positive and negative social capital and the uneven development of civil society in Southeastern Europe
This article surveys alternative conceptions of social capital and presents empirical findings from research conducted in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia – Montenegro and Romania. A conceptual distinction between positive and negative social capital is made and emphasis is placed on inter‐regional variation among South East European countries and on inter‐ethnic aspects of social capital. Positive social capital is a necessary condition for developin…
Old Problems and New Challenges: The Enduring and Changing Functions of Southern European State Bureaucracies 1
Despite variations among Southern European state bureaucracies, there are certain common features of the Southern European bureaucratic model, such as political clientelism at the higher echelons of the bureaucracy and at the entry level; an uneven distribution of resources and infrastructure in the public sector; legal rigidity and excessive legalism; and—with the exception of Spain—lack of an administrative elite. Corruption and inefficiency ar…
Is the Glass ‘Half Full’ or ‘Half Empty’? The Political Science Profession and Young Academics in Greece
This article argues that after the initial expansion of departments and postgraduate courses during and after the mid-1990s in Greece, we are now witnessing the first signs that the academic environment is unable to absorb young academics entering the field. A long ‘waiting list’ of young PhDs, combined with a lack of public funding for new posts, creates a rather negative picture for the future of young Greek political scientists
Childcare in Post-Communist Welfare States: The Case of Bulgaria
In transition societies such as contemporary Bulgaria, the legacy of the communist past in childcare policy is reflected in the state-centred mentality of officials, the tendency towards over-regulation and the complex and inefficient relations among multiple state actors. The traditional approach to children as objects of protection rather than as subjects of rights still prevails. Efforts to modernise legislation and to introduce innovative chi…
Explaining the Attitudes of Parliamentarians towards European Integration in Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia: Party Affiliation, ‘Left–Right’ Self-placement or Country Origin
Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance
This article analyses the attitudes of Greek political elites towards the European Union (EU) and compares them with the views of public opinion. Data were collected in 2007 through personal interviews with 90 MPs and a public opinion survey (IntUne project). The attitudes of MPs are discussed with regard to three dimensions of European citizenship: identity, representation, and scope of governance. There are traditionalists, formalists, and libe…
Revisiting the Debate on National Identities in Contemporary Greece
The Authoritarian Past and Contemporary Greek Democracy
In Greece after the 1974 democratic transition the Karamanlis government prioritised political stability and foreign policy issues over transitional justice. The punitive process in the army was extensive, while in the police, the gendarmerie, the justice system and the universities the process was less comprehensive. Greek socialists demanded a more thoroughgoing ‘cleansing’ of the state apparatus than some Greek communists. In the following dec…
The Odyssey of Administrative Reforms in Greece, 1981–2009: A Tale of Two Reform Paths
In Greece, two distinct reform paths led to institutional building and economic managerial types of reform. These two reforms, with the exception of the period 1996–2004, when both institutional and economic reforms were attempted, did not attract the same degree of attention. Institutional reforms were more successful than attempts at managerial reforms; reform implementation on the other hand varies. Economic and managerial reforms can be obser…
The Social Effects of the Economic Crisis in the Western Balkans: A Case Study of Unreconstructed Welfare Regimes
The recent economic crisis has led to a deterioration of the social situation in the Western Balkans. Already before the crisis, a combination of war and conflict, legacies of economic underdevelopment, labour market problems, inadequate social expenditure, and faltering economic growth had produced lingering poverty, unemployment, and income inequality. These trends can be explained in the context of fragmented and uneven welfare regimes that do…
International Aid to Southern Europe in the Early Postwar Period: The Cases of Greece and Italy
After World War II, Greece and Italy experienced a Left-Right political polarization and a repetition of earlier patterns of political patronage. Both countries received international aid, including emergency relief, interim loans, and Marshall Plan funds. By the beginning of the 1950s, Italy had progressed from stabilization to reconstruction and then to development, while Greece progressed belatedly with reconstruction and did not achieve stabi…
Southern European Governments and Public Bureaucracies in the Context of Economic Crisis
Before the economic crisis erupted, the public bureaucracies of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain had embarked on public administration reforms reflecting Neo-Weberian and New Public Management influences. After the onset of the crisis, which functioned as a critical juncture, reforms of public administration and the structures and functions of government decision-making were hastily effected. Administrative reforms reflected almost exclusively N…
Austerity and the Third Sector in Greece: Civil Society at the European Frontline
Children of the dictatorship: Student resistance, cultural politics, and the ‘long 1960s’ in Greece
The fall of the Greek Colonels’ regime in 1974, one of the first events to signal the ‘third wave of democratization’, namely the transition from authoritarian rule in southern Europe, Latin Americ
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