Kevin Featherstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Featherstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Featherstone |
| SIGNATURE | FEATHERSTONE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5652-4338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 552 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis
When can crises overcome the fragmentation of a core executive and facilitate a centralised management response? Here, we identify the latter by reference to the concept of a 'crisis response network' (CRN). We draw on several literatures that refer to crisis centralisation and develop hypotheses that comprise likely contributing factors. We explore these hypotheses in the setting of a core executive normally identified as being 'segmentary', but…
The Changing Discourses of EU Enlargement: A Longitudinal Analysis of National Parliamentary Debates
Domestic support for EU enlargement across existing member states is understood to have shifted significantly since 2004. But, how? Here, we explore how enlargement has been framed discursively in the national parliaments of eight member states. Our dataset comprises over 18,000 statements from 1989 to 2019. We link our exploration to alternative explanations for change: IR‐based shifts in how applicant states are perceived and, from comparative …
Political Change in Greece: Before and After the Colonels
Health Policy and Politics
This chapter critically examines the health policy trajectory and reform dynamics since the restoration of democracy in Greece in 1974. After a brief Introduction, the second section highlights the distinctive features of the Greek health-care system that make it a ‘sui generis’ case in comparative studies. It uses analytical tools from the available literature on policy formation (such as, the concepts of ‘institutional layering’ and ‘windows of…
Interest Group Politics
This chapter examines the unfolding of interest representation and intermediation, from 1974 to 2018 by focusing mostly on the organization of wage labour, farmers, and the liberal professions and their respective ties to the political system. State–society relations in Greece have undergone a number of transformations since the transition to democracy in 1974, but until 2010 these were mostly of a path-dependent nature. Legacies of authoritarian…
Enhancing Europe’s Power: A Rejoinder
This rejoinder responds to the eight comments to our report on ‘Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals’. We address questions related to our definition of Europe, the notion of power, context and appropriateness of the scenario approach, the feasibility of enhancing European power, the rationale behind the proposed eight measures as well as the way ahead. Finally, we highlight green policies together with media …
Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals
In the present context of intensifying competition between the major trading economies and potentially game‐changing technological developments, the European Union is generally seen as the weaker party. Lacking the ‘hard power’ derived from military capabilities, it has laid claim to a ‘soft power’ of normative influence externally, yet even that is only partially utilised. Nor has Europe been able to exercise the power to coerce – ‘sharp power’ …
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics
This volume aims to provide an unprecedented breadth of analysis on the development of modern Greek politics, especially from the restoration of democracy in 1974 to the present day. Over forty-three chapters, contributors provide authoritative accounts of what is known about a particular area. Never before has such a volume been produced, in any language. This is not intended as a student textbook, but as a scholarly reference for all who are in…
Political parties and democratic consolidation in Greece
This chapter concerns developments after the fall of the Colonel's regime, when former Premier Constantine Karamanlis was invited to take over the reins of power. The legalization of political parties most noticeably involved the Communist Party, which had been banned since 1947. The relevance of these social structures to the behaviour of the political parties will be discussed later. In the Greek context, weak social structures have contributed…
Conditionality, Democracy and Institutional Weakness: The Euro‐crisis Trilemma
The sovereign debt crises of the eurozone have raised a set of systemic challenges for the European Union (EU) that questions the credibility and legitimacy of its governance across two levels, European and domestic. The challenges are both instrumental and normative. The critical case in these respects is Greece: in 2015, it needed a third bail-out, but it also launched a political confrontation with the EU following the election of a leftist-le…
Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power
This book is concerned with a large question in one small, but highly problematic case: how can prime ministers establish control and coordination across their government? The Greek system of government sustains a ‘paradox of power’ at its very core. The Constitution provides the Prime Minister with extensive and often unchecked powers. Yet, the operational structures, processes, and resources around the Prime Minister undermine their power to ma…
External conditionality and the debt crisis: The ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece
Levering domestic reform via external conditionality has become crucial to the rescues of European Union member states in the context of the eurozone crisis. This article examines a critical case – Greece – and a problematic sector – reform of the central state administration – to assess the applicability of three hypotheses advanced by Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier. New data on the trends in reform activity before and during Greece's debt crisis…
Politics and Policy in Greece: The Challenge Of 'Modernisation'
Introduction: 'Modernisation' and the Structural Constraints of Greek Politics Kevin Featherstone The Political Process The Changing Greek Party System: Stable Democracy, Contested 'Modernisation' Christos Lyrintzis Greek Elections and Voters, 1974-2001: Old Cleavages and New Issues Ilias Nikolakopoulos The Public Policy Process The Role of Experts in the Reform Process in Greece Stella Ladi Interest Groups in Disjointed Corporatism: Social Dialo…
The Emperor Has No Clothes! Power and Resources within the Greek Core Executive
International attention has focused recently on the reform “failures” of Greece in the context of its European Union membership. Systemic constraints are increasingly recognized. The present article argues that attention ought also to be given to the inner workings of government at the center and their undermining of reform capacity. It explores the nature of the Greek core executive across five premierships and argues the supposed supremacy of t…
The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past
Roderick Beaton and David Ricks, eds. The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xiv. 270. As Beaton stresses at the outset of this
The Spatialities of Europeanization: Power, Governance and Territory in Europe
The Spatialities of Europeanization: Power, Governance and Territory in Europe By Alun Jones and Julian Clark Routledge, London, 2010, 182 pp., £80.00, ISBN 9781844721672 (hbk) This book, written b
The JCMS Annual Lecture: The Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis and EMU: A Failing State in a Skewed Regime
The Greek sovereign debt crisis of 2010 exposed the weaknesses of governance of both the 'euro area' and of Greece. Successive governments in Athens had failed to overcome endemic problems of low competitiveness, trade and investment imbalances, and fiscal mismanagement placing the economy in a vulnerable international position. Once the market crisis erupted, the European Union's Council of Ministers and the European Central Bank failed to provi…
The Limits of Europeanization
An innovative case study of one of the most recalcitrant member states of the EU: Greece. Based on extensive empirical research, the book relates its evidence to two major conceptual frames: 'European
The limits of Europeanization: Reform capacity and policy conflict in Greece
Introduction The Europeanization Process and the Greek Political System The Domestic Constraints in Reform Whose Benefits? The Elusive Reform of the Greek Pension System The Puzzle of Jobless Growth: The Challenge of Reforming the Greek Labour Market Destination Nowhere: Restructuring Olympic Airways/Airlines Conclusions
Manipulating Rules, Contesting Solutions: Europeanization and the Politics of Restructuring Olympic Airways
In recent years much debate has been generated over the reshaping of the European airline industry and the restructuring of many of the heavily indebted national flag-carriers across the European Union. The European Commission has sought to orchestrate this reform process by the gradual break up of monopolies in air travel and its associated services and a much tighter policing of state aid practices. The EU's liberalizing agenda in air transport…
Soft’ co-ordination meets ‘hard’ politics: The European Union and pension reform in Greece
The paper examines the process of pension reform in Greece in the context of the ‘soft’ policy constraint (on structural reform) emanating from the European Union. It argues that the EU stimulus to reform complemented a set of domestic pressures. However, the domestic system of interest mediation has largely thwarted reform. The reform process is marked by a strong configuration of institutional conditions undermining the will and capability to a…
Introduction: Modernisation’ and the Structural Constraints of Greek Politics
Contemporary Greek politics are marked by tensions between pressures for reform and the structural constraints to their realisation. The pressures combine those emanating from processes of Europeanisation (European Union agendas on economic reform, for example) and the domestic demand for 'modernisation' (the agenda of former Premier Simitis). The two have been seen as synonymous in Greece. The resultant tensions have created a fundamental issue …
The political dynamics of external empowerment: The emergence of EMU and the challenge to the European social model
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), on the one hand, and existing models of labor market regulation and welfare provision within the European Union (EU), on the other, have often been assumed to stand in contradiction to one another. The re-appearance of EMU on the European agenda in the late 1980s, following the de-regulation paradigm of the Single European Market (SEM), raised widespread concern that it might serve as a "Trojan horse" for a neo-…
Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is one of the most important developments in modern European politics. Building on two decades of monetary integration it transfers monetary policy, a core function of the modern state, to an independent European Central Bank (ECB) and limits member states' fiscal policy discretion. The ECB insists that growth and employment depend on 'flexibilizing' Europe's labor markets through deep reforms of the social polic…
The Politics of Europeanization
The Politics of Europeanization looks at the political aspects of European integration from the viewpoint of domestic politics. In so doing, it goes beyond the classic analysis of ‘how policies are made in Brussels’ and raises instead the question ‘what is the power of Europe in national contexts?’.Whereas standard books on domestic politics and European integration look at different countries one by one, this volume embraces an innovative perspe…
Italy and EMU as a 'Vincolo Esterno: Empowering the Technocrats, Transforming the State
This case study analyses how the Italian 'core executive' operated in the negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty provisions on Economic and Monetary Union. The record of the Italian negotiators on EMU is examined in the framework of a 'two-level' bargaining game. It argues that policy was largely driven by a small technocratic elite, with limited ministerial involvement. The overarching foreign policy imperatives were to maintain Italian participat…
The JCMS Annual Lecture: The Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis and EMU: A Failing State in a Skewed Regime
The Greek sovereign debt crisis of 2010 exposed the weaknesses of governance of both the 'euro area' and of Greece. Successive governments in Athens had failed to overcome endemic problems of low competitiveness, trade and investment imbalances, and fiscal mismanagement placing the economy in a vulnerable international position. Once the market crisis erupted, the European Union's Council of Ministers and the European Central Bank failed to provi…
Jean Monnet and the ‘Democratic Deficit’ in the European Union
External conditionality and the debt crisis: The ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece
Levering domestic reform via external conditionality has become crucial to the rescues of European Union member states in the context of the eurozone crisis. This article examines a critical case – Greece – and a problematic sector – reform of the central state administration – to assess the applicability of three hypotheses advanced by Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier. New data on the trends in reform activity before and during Greece's debt crisis…
Introduction: Modernisation’ and the Structural Constraints of Greek Politics
Contemporary Greek politics are marked by tensions between pressures for reform and the structural constraints to their realisation. The pressures combine those emanating from processes of Europeanisation (European Union agendas on economic reform, for example) and the domestic demand for 'modernisation' (the agenda of former Premier Simitis). The two have been seen as synonymous in Greece. The resultant tensions have created a fundamental issue …
Europeanization’ and the Centre Periphery: The Case of Greece in the 1990s
This article discusses the notion of 'Europeanization' as it might apply to the position of Greece in the European Union. It advances three basic propositions: (i) that the domestic impact of EU integration can be differentiated along various dimensions; (ii) of particular relevance is differentiation between the centre and periphery; and (iii) that the impact of the EU in Greece can be gauged in terms of a series of inter-connected features: a G…
The Limits of External Empowerment: EMU, Technocracy and Reform of the Greek Pension System
This paper seeks to explain an aborted attempt at reform of the Greek pension system, following a series of previous failures. It applies the framework of rational choice institutionalism in order to examine the strategy and setting of the relevant actors. The pension system had become a huge fiscal burden on the state, threatening Greece's position in the European Union. Moreover, its gross inequalities of provision and bureaucratic inefficiency…
Soft’ co-ordination meets ‘hard’ politics: The European Union and pension reform in Greece
The paper examines the process of pension reform in Greece in the context of the ‘soft’ policy constraint (on structural reform) emanating from the European Union. It argues that the EU stimulus to reform complemented a set of domestic pressures. However, the domestic system of interest mediation has largely thwarted reform. The reform process is marked by a strong configuration of institutional conditions undermining the will and capability to a…
The ‘party‐state’ in Greece and the fall of Papandreou
Revelations of corruption and of maladministration have forced a re‐examination of some of the basic characteristics of the Greek party‐state and party system. The purpose of this article is to examine how the controversies ‐ 'scandals' ‐ arose, and to assess their consequences for political development in Greece in the light of the June 1989 national elections. The elections may prove critical for the evolution of the State and the party system
Introduction: Southern Europe and the Process of ‘Europeanization
This article introduces the theme of ‘Europeanization’ in the context of the focus on contemporary southern and Mediterranean Europe. In applying the term ‘periphery’ to the region, it argues that the major contrasts that exist between it and the ‘core’ EU states serve to highlight in stark terms the challenges endemic within the Europeanization process. It explores the different meanings of ‘Europeanization’ and argues that it necessitates a bro…
Strapped to the mast: EC central bankers between global financial markets and regional integration1
Paradoxically, though the Treaty on European Union underlines the power of EC central bankers, they have been neglected in the literature on European integration. Central bank independence provides the key connection between changes in global financial markets and the new Treaty provisions on economic and monetary union (EMU). In recent years EC central bankers have been subjected to ever more volatile and competitive markets and new political pr…
Greece and EMU: Between External Empowerment and Domestic Vulnerability
EMU was an agenda determined outside Greece and it represents the importation of a radical new policy paradigm. In gaining entry into the ‘euro’ system, EMU has been the stimulus to profound change in Greek macroeconomic policy. However, the developing EU agenda on structural reform highlights the dilemmas of policy‐making in Athens: the uncertain political commitment; the domestic vetoes from rent‐seeking behaviour; and the imprecise external co…
The Road To Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the management of institutional venues in the pursuit of particular objectives. The Franco–German relationship e…
Conditionality, Democracy and Institutional Weakness: The Euro‐crisis Trilemma
The sovereign debt crises of the eurozone have raised a set of systemic challenges for the European Union (EU) that questions the credibility and legitimacy of its governance across two levels, European and domestic. The challenges are both instrumental and normative. The critical case in these respects is Greece: in 2015, it needed a third bail-out, but it also launched a political confrontation with the EU following the election of a leftist-le…
The challenge of liberalization: Parties and the state in Greece after the 1993 elections
1994). The challenge of liberalization: Parties and the state in Greece after the 1993 elections. Democratization: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 280-294
Cyprus and the Onset of Europeanization: Strategic Usage, Structural Transformation and Institutional Adaptation
This article analyzes the EU's impact on Cyprus during its ‘pre-accession’ phase. The processes of Europeanization are considered in terms of the structural transformation of state–economy relations (in which ‘empowerment’ is diffuse and differentiated among domestic actors); and the adaptation of the state administration (to the demands of coordination; readjustment of competencies). Across a range of domestic reforms, EU pressure has been cruci…
EMU and economic governance in Germany
This article argues the value of models of policy analysis which focus on the role of endogenous variables in explaining policy change. Studies of EMU and studies of German public policy in general have tended to be preoccupied with contextual variables as explanations of change. Whilst such variables are important in identifying necessary conditions of policy change, they underestimate the dynamics within the policy process. Policy change in EMU…
The Greek socialists in power
This article examines the development, organisation and policies of PASOK, and the performance of the party since it came to power in 1981. In the course of the analysis, the differences between PASOK and other European socialist parties are examined, and it is suggested that PASOK shares some of the characteristics of non‐European populist movements
The Changing Discourses of EU Enlargement: A Longitudinal Analysis of National Parliamentary Debates
Domestic support for EU enlargement across existing member states is understood to have shifted significantly since 2004. But, how? Here, we explore how enlargement has been framed discursively in the national parliaments of eight member states. Our dataset comprises over 18,000 statements from 1989 to 2019. We link our exploration to alternative explanations for change: IR‐based shifts in how applicant states are perceived and, from comparative …
The Emperor Has No Clothes! Power and Resources within the Greek Core Executive
International attention has focused recently on the reform “failures” of Greece in the context of its European Union membership. Systemic constraints are increasingly recognized. The present article argues that attention ought also to be given to the inner workings of government at the center and their undermining of reform capacity. It explores the nature of the Greek core executive across five premierships and argues the supposed supremacy of t…
The Greek election of 1993: Backwards or forwards
Change and Continuity in Greek Voting Behaviour
The paper analyses the change and continuity in electoral support from the pre‐dictatorship period to the years following 1974. It analyses the geography of the election results both by region and by type of area, and it also examines the results of a pre‐election opinion survey in 1981 which categorized voters by age, sex, level of education, and social class. It considers the extent to which the recent support given to the Socialists parallels …
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis
When can crises overcome the fragmentation of a core executive and facilitate a centralised management response? Here, we identify the latter by reference to the concept of a 'crisis response network' (CRN). We draw on several literatures that refer to crisis centralisation and develop hypotheses that comprise likely contributing factors. We explore these hypotheses in the setting of a core executive normally identified as being 'segmentary', but…
Manipulating Rules, Contesting Solutions: Europeanization and the Politics of Restructuring Olympic Airways
In recent years much debate has been generated over the reshaping of the European airline industry and the restructuring of many of the heavily indebted national flag-carriers across the European Union. The European Commission has sought to orchestrate this reform process by the gradual break up of monopolies in air travel and its associated services and a much tighter policing of state aid practices. The EU's liberalizing agenda in air transport…
In the absence of charisma: The Greek elections of September 1996
1997). In the absence of charisma: The Greek elections of September 1996. West European Politics: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 157-164
Socialists and European Integration: The Attitudes of British Labour Members of Parliament
This analysis of the attitudes of British Labour Members of Parliament towards European integration focuses in particular on attitudes towards three themes: integrationist policies, the ‘national interest’ and ideological identification. Based on the results of a survey of Labour MPs, it suggests the importance of the ideology and national interest dimensions to any explanation of their stance towards the operation of the European Community. The …
Elections and Parties in Greece
IN THE SEVEN YEARS SINCE THE FALL OF THE COLONELS' dictatorship in Greece, a new Greek party has established firm political roots. With the accession of Greece to the European Community on 1 January 1981, the new parties have been brought into the Western European political orbit, a development which marks the rehabilitation of a political system ostracized by virtue of its period of dictatorship. Unlike Portugal and Spain, however, which also se…
The Greek socialists in power
This article examines the development, organisation and policies of PASOK, and the performance of the party since it came to power in 1981. In the course of the analysis, the differences between PASOK and other European socialist parties are examined, and it is suggested that PASOK shares some of the characteristics of non‐European populist movements
Looking towards the 1984 European Elections: Problems of Political Integration
Change and Continuity in Greek Voting Behaviour
The paper analyses the change and continuity in electoral support from the pre‐dictatorship period to the years following 1974. It analyses the geography of the election results both by region and by type of area, and it also examines the results of a pre‐election opinion survey in 1981 which categorized voters by age, sex, level of education, and social class. It considers the extent to which the recent support given to the Socialists parallels …
The ‘party‐state’ in Greece and the fall of Papandreou
Revelations of corruption and of maladministration have forced a re‐examination of some of the basic characteristics of the Greek party‐state and party system. The purpose of this article is to examine how the controversies ‐ 'scandals' ‐ arose, and to assess their consequences for political development in Greece in the light of the June 1989 national elections. The elections may prove critical for the evolution of the State and the party system
Jean Monnet and the ‘Democratic Deficit’ in the European Union
The challenge of liberalization: Parties and the state in Greece after the 1993 elections
1994). The challenge of liberalization: Parties and the state in Greece after the 1993 elections. Democratization: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 280-294
The Greek election of 1993: Backwards or forwards
Strapped to the mast: EC central bankers between global financial markets and regional integration1
Paradoxically, though the Treaty on European Union underlines the power of EC central bankers, they have been neglected in the literature on European integration. Central bank independence provides the key connection between changes in global financial markets and the new Treaty provisions on economic and monetary union (EMU). In recent years EC central bankers have been subjected to ever more volatile and competitive markets and new political pr…
The United States and the European Union in the 1990s
Italy and EMU as a 'Vincolo Esterno: Empowering the Technocrats, Transforming the State
This case study analyses how the Italian 'core executive' operated in the negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty provisions on Economic and Monetary Union. The record of the Italian negotiators on EMU is examined in the framework of a 'two-level' bargaining game. It argues that policy was largely driven by a small technocratic elite, with limited ministerial involvement. The overarching foreign policy imperatives were to maintain Italian participat…
EMU and economic governance in Germany
This article argues the value of models of policy analysis which focus on the role of endogenous variables in explaining policy change. Studies of EMU and studies of German public policy in general have tended to be preoccupied with contextual variables as explanations of change. Whilst such variables are important in identifying necessary conditions of policy change, they underestimate the dynamics within the policy process. Policy change in EMU…
In the absence of charisma: The Greek elections of September 1996
1997). In the absence of charisma: The Greek elections of September 1996. West European Politics: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 157-164
EMU and Presidential Leadership under François Mitterrand
The project of economic and monetary union (EMU) emerged by 1985-1986 as a centrepiece of presidential leadership by François Mitterrand. Yet, paradoxically, the negotiation of this project within the EC transformed the French state in ways that would not be readily predicted from the perspective of traditional French Socialist policy beliefs about the appropriate relationship between state and economy.KeywordsMonetary PolicyEuropean Central Bank…
Greece and the European Union in the 1990s: The challenge to the domestic state
For the last decade or more, domestic political debate in Greece has focussed on the nature and role of the state. The debate has raised questions about the extent of the state’s role in the domestic economy, and the state’s domination of civil society. New liberal economic philosophy has pressed for greater market freedoms, on the one hand, whilst separate criticism has been made of the corruption and inefficiency of the ‘party-state‘. On both f…
Europeanization’ and the Centre Periphery: The Case of Greece in the 1990s
This article discusses the notion of 'Europeanization' as it might apply to the position of Greece in the European Union. It advances three basic propositions: (i) that the domestic impact of EU integration can be differentiated along various dimensions; (ii) of particular relevance is differentiation between the centre and periphery; and (iii) that the impact of the EU in Greece can be gauged in terms of a series of inter-connected features: a G…
The Road To Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the management of institutional venues in the pursuit of particular objectives. The Franco–German relationship e…
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Cyprus and the Onset of Europeanization: Strategic Usage, Structural Transformation and Institutional Adaptation
This article analyzes the EU's impact on Cyprus during its ‘pre-accession’ phase. The processes of Europeanization are considered in terms of the structural transformation of state–economy relations (in which ‘empowerment’ is diffuse and differentiated among domestic actors); and the adaptation of the state administration (to the demands of coordination; readjustment of competencies). Across a range of domestic reforms, EU pressure has been cruci…
Introduction: Southern Europe and the Process of ‘Europeanization
This article introduces the theme of ‘Europeanization’ in the context of the focus on contemporary southern and Mediterranean Europe. In applying the term ‘periphery’ to the region, it argues that the major contrasts that exist between it and the ‘core’ EU states serve to highlight in stark terms the challenges endemic within the Europeanization process. It explores the different meanings of ‘Europeanization’ and argues that it necessitates a bro…
The Limits of External Empowerment: EMU, Technocracy and Reform of the Greek Pension System
This paper seeks to explain an aborted attempt at reform of the Greek pension system, following a series of previous failures. It applies the framework of rational choice institutionalism in order to examine the strategy and setting of the relevant actors. The pension system had become a huge fiscal burden on the state, threatening Greece's position in the European Union. Moreover, its gross inequalities of provision and bureaucratic inefficiency…
The Politics of Europeanization
The Politics of Europeanization looks at the political aspects of European integration from the viewpoint of domestic politics. In so doing, it goes beyond the classic analysis of ‘how policies are made in Brussels’ and raises instead the question ‘what is the power of Europe in national contexts?’.Whereas standard books on domestic politics and European integration look at different countries one by one, this volume embraces an innovative perspe…
Introduction: In the Name of ‘Europe’
This introductory chapter defines the purpose of the book, which is to bring together recognized experts in the field to distinguish the conceptual meaning of ‘Europeanization’ and to analyse its empirical implications. In order to set the context it seeks to chart the uses of the term ‘Europeanization’ and to clarify how it will be used in the rest of the book. The aim is to provide some structure to the potential confusion of the uninitiated re…
Greece and EMU: Between External Empowerment and Domestic Vulnerability
EMU was an agenda determined outside Greece and it represents the importation of a radical new policy paradigm. In gaining entry into the ‘euro’ system, EMU has been the stimulus to profound change in Greek macroeconomic policy. However, the developing EU agenda on structural reform highlights the dilemmas of policy‐making in Athens: the uncertain political commitment; the domestic vetoes from rent‐seeking behaviour; and the imprecise external co…
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