Dimitri A Sotiropoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitri A Sotiropoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitri A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sotiropoulos |
| SIGNATURE | SOTIROPOULOS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States
Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States
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…
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…
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…
Austerity and the Third Sector in Greece: Civil Society at the European Frontline
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…
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…
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…
Democracy and the state in the new Southern Europe
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…
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…
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…
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…
Administrative Science and Organizational Theory in Greece
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…
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 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
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…
Administrative Science and Organizational Theory in Greece
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…
Democracy and the state in the new Southern Europe
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States
Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States
Political science (22 works) · Economics (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (15 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Democracy (12 works) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (11 works) · Public Administration (11 works) · Sociology (9 works)