Calliope Spanou
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Calliope Spanou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Calliope |
| FAMILY NAME | Spanou |
| SIGNATURE | SPANOU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5176-2257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
External influence on structural reform
The experience of Greece under the macro-economic adjustment programmes represents an intriguing case of the impact of external conditionality on the process of implementing domestic structural reform. After discussing the concept of reform capacity, the article looks into the specifics of its interaction with policy conditionality, in order to elaborate to what extent external constraint unleashes or hinders reform potential. In doing so, the ar…
Tangling with the Troika
This paper analyses variation in the degrees of difficulty involved in negotiating and implementing loan programmes with the international lenders in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. All three countries displayed high degrees of ultimate compliance with fiscal consolidation and structural adjustment conditionality, but the pace of implementation varied significantly. This paper argues that ‘domestic ownership’ of the loan programmes is a key determ…
La haute fonction publique hellénique
La haute fonction publique hellénique a souvent été reformée sans que les enjeux réels de son statut et de son rôle n’aient été véritablement traités. Impartialité et mérite ont occupé l’essentiel des efforts mais le rôle d’interface avec le politique n’a pas été clarifié. La mobilité interministérielle reste quasi‐absente. La crise économique a fourni l’occasion d’une nouvelle approche dans le cadre plus général de la réforme administrative. Il …
Administrative elites and the crisis
The nature of the relationship between the public administration and politics and the subsequent role of the administration appear to be incompatible with the emergence of an administrative elite. After analysing the reasons for this incompatibility, the article explores the impact of the measures taken in the wake of the economic crisis on the civil service and its reform, and also the prospects for the development of a senior civil service. The…
Public management reform and modernization
The Odyssey of Administrative Reforms in Greece, 1981–2009
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…
State reform in Greece
Purpose The paper attempts to assess the impact of reforms of the last 25 years on Greek administration and more specifically on its Napoleonic features. Given that those have been reshaped by country specific socio‐political dynamics, the analysis starts by pointing out the Napoleonic features but also specific features its Greek variant. These form the context of reforms undertaken and determine their trajectories as well as their limitations. …
Abandonner ou renforcer l'état webérien
The merchant economy model, new public management, and network governance tend to blur the Weberian state model. Nonetheless, the imperatives of democratic control, of accountability and responsibility — the basic principles underlying the professionalism and ethics of civil servants — take priority over the efficiency emphasized by the merchant model and “democratization” promised by “new governance”. Contrary to what is often heard, the Weberia…
L’institution préfectorale en Grèce
The Office of Prefect in Greece : from Deconcentration to Decentralisation The Greek State has a recent Constitution (dating back to the 1820s). In order to allow for territorial unification under one central power, a network of prefects -placed at the head of departments -was introduced, to represent the centre and control the periphery. This System lasted until the 1980s. It was a statute of 1986 which instituted the region as a unit of deconce…
Les sirènes de la politisation - Fonction publique et politique en Grèce
The Sirens of Politicisation : Civil Service and Politics in Greece. In Greece, the grip of those in political power upon the civil service is a permanent feature of a system which has been discredited by its excesses in this area. The denunciation of politicisation has henceforth become an obligatory theme in all oppositional discourse but has only been translated into practice by a number of limited and isolated developments. Rather than restri…
European integration in administrative terms
The analysis of how national administrative systems respond to European integration requirements has so far focused mainly on formal/institutional aspects. Implicit assumptions based on the universality of Weberian-type bureaucracies tend to dominate the debate. It is expected that common constraints within the European Union (EU) might lead to administrative convergence. However, the point of departure of individual political administrative syst…
On the Regulatory Capacity of the Hellenic State
Penelope's suitors
The contribution undertakes to focus on the process of administrative reform in Greece during the past twenty years. In doing so, the strategies of the two central party organisations in Greek politics, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and New Democracy (ND) are detailed. The core argument consists in elaborating that administrative reform efforts have been intrinsically shaped by and are the results of specific features of competition …
À la recherche du temps perdu
The Search for Lost Time : The Modernization of Greek Administration. The turbulent history of the Hellenic nation encouraged the establishment of a pre-Weberian bureaucracy completely dependent on the political branch. Over the past fifteen years, several important reforms have introduced a sort of anarchical transformation of administrative structures and public service organization. The environment and functioning of the administration remain …
Les politiques de recrutement dans l’administration hellénique
Recruitment Policies in the Greek Administration : Is Modernization Impossible ? In order to combat clientelist practices and to limit the increase in public sector staffing, the civil service recruitment System has undergone several reforms since 1951. These have, however, instituted an extremely rigid, heavy and badly managed System, based on centralization, standardization and the adoption of elaborate regulations, wich has ignored the require…
Administration
Élaboration des politiques publiques et mobilisation sociale
Public Policymaking for the Environment, Consumer Action and Women’s Rights. Support from non-profit action groups has considerably enhanced the efficacy of the Ministries of the Environment, Consumer Rights and Women’s Rights. Ministries are now coordinating activities directly with such groups. This article describes why this approach is less effective for the formulation of public policy or where potential support lacks organizational structur…
European integration in administrative terms
The analysis of how national administrative systems respond to European integration requirements has so far focused mainly on formal/institutional aspects. Implicit assumptions based on the universality of Weberian-type bureaucracies tend to dominate the debate. It is expected that common constraints within the European Union (EU) might lead to administrative convergence. However, the point of departure of individual political administrative syst…
The Odyssey of Administrative Reforms in Greece, 1981–2009
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…
Penelope's suitors
The contribution undertakes to focus on the process of administrative reform in Greece during the past twenty years. In doing so, the strategies of the two central party organisations in Greek politics, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and New Democracy (ND) are detailed. The core argument consists in elaborating that administrative reform efforts have been intrinsically shaped by and are the results of specific features of competition …
External influence on structural reform
The experience of Greece under the macro-economic adjustment programmes represents an intriguing case of the impact of external conditionality on the process of implementing domestic structural reform. After discussing the concept of reform capacity, the article looks into the specifics of its interaction with policy conditionality, in order to elaborate to what extent external constraint unleashes or hinders reform potential. In doing so, the ar…
On the Regulatory Capacity of the Hellenic State
Abandonner ou renforcer l'état webérien
The merchant economy model, new public management, and network governance tend to blur the Weberian state model. Nonetheless, the imperatives of democratic control, of accountability and responsibility — the basic principles underlying the professionalism and ethics of civil servants — take priority over the efficiency emphasized by the merchant model and “democratization” promised by “new governance”. Contrary to what is often heard, the Weberia…
L’institution préfectorale en Grèce
The Office of Prefect in Greece : from Deconcentration to Decentralisation The Greek State has a recent Constitution (dating back to the 1820s). In order to allow for territorial unification under one central power, a network of prefects -placed at the head of departments -was introduced, to represent the centre and control the periphery. This System lasted until the 1980s. It was a statute of 1986 which instituted the region as a unit of deconce…
Les politiques de recrutement dans l’administration hellénique
Recruitment Policies in the Greek Administration : Is Modernization Impossible ? In order to combat clientelist practices and to limit the increase in public sector staffing, the civil service recruitment System has undergone several reforms since 1951. These have, however, instituted an extremely rigid, heavy and badly managed System, based on centralization, standardization and the adoption of elaborate regulations, wich has ignored the require…
La haute fonction publique hellénique
La haute fonction publique hellénique a souvent été reformée sans que les enjeux réels de son statut et de son rôle n’aient été véritablement traités. Impartialité et mérite ont occupé l’essentiel des efforts mais le rôle d’interface avec le politique n’a pas été clarifié. La mobilité interministérielle reste quasi‐absente. La crise économique a fourni l’occasion d’une nouvelle approche dans le cadre plus général de la réforme administrative. Il …
Administrative elites and the crisis
The nature of the relationship between the public administration and politics and the subsequent role of the administration appear to be incompatible with the emergence of an administrative elite. After analysing the reasons for this incompatibility, the article explores the impact of the measures taken in the wake of the economic crisis on the civil service and its reform, and also the prospects for the development of a senior civil service. The…
Les sirènes de la politisation - Fonction publique et politique en Grèce
The Sirens of Politicisation : Civil Service and Politics in Greece. In Greece, the grip of those in political power upon the civil service is a permanent feature of a system which has been discredited by its excesses in this area. The denunciation of politicisation has henceforth become an obligatory theme in all oppositional discourse but has only been translated into practice by a number of limited and isolated developments. Rather than restri…
Élaboration des politiques publiques et mobilisation sociale
Public Policymaking for the Environment, Consumer Action and Women’s Rights. Support from non-profit action groups has considerably enhanced the efficacy of the Ministries of the Environment, Consumer Rights and Women’s Rights. Ministries are now coordinating activities directly with such groups. This article describes why this approach is less effective for the formulation of public policy or where potential support lacks organizational structur…
Élaboration des politiques publiques et mobilisation sociale
Public Policymaking for the Environment, Consumer Action and Women’s Rights. Support from non-profit action groups has considerably enhanced the efficacy of the Ministries of the Environment, Consumer Rights and Women’s Rights. Ministries are now coordinating activities directly with such groups. This article describes why this approach is less effective for the formulation of public policy or where potential support lacks organizational structur…
Administration
Les politiques de recrutement dans l’administration hellénique
Recruitment Policies in the Greek Administration : Is Modernization Impossible ? In order to combat clientelist practices and to limit the increase in public sector staffing, the civil service recruitment System has undergone several reforms since 1951. These have, however, instituted an extremely rigid, heavy and badly managed System, based on centralization, standardization and the adoption of elaborate regulations, wich has ignored the require…
À la recherche du temps perdu
The Search for Lost Time : The Modernization of Greek Administration. The turbulent history of the Hellenic nation encouraged the establishment of a pre-Weberian bureaucracy completely dependent on the political branch. Over the past fifteen years, several important reforms have introduced a sort of anarchical transformation of administrative structures and public service organization. The environment and functioning of the administration remain …
On the Regulatory Capacity of the Hellenic State
Penelope's suitors
The contribution undertakes to focus on the process of administrative reform in Greece during the past twenty years. In doing so, the strategies of the two central party organisations in Greek politics, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and New Democracy (ND) are detailed. The core argument consists in elaborating that administrative reform efforts have been intrinsically shaped by and are the results of specific features of competition …
Les sirènes de la politisation - Fonction publique et politique en Grèce
The Sirens of Politicisation : Civil Service and Politics in Greece. In Greece, the grip of those in political power upon the civil service is a permanent feature of a system which has been discredited by its excesses in this area. The denunciation of politicisation has henceforth become an obligatory theme in all oppositional discourse but has only been translated into practice by a number of limited and isolated developments. Rather than restri…
European integration in administrative terms
The analysis of how national administrative systems respond to European integration requirements has so far focused mainly on formal/institutional aspects. Implicit assumptions based on the universality of Weberian-type bureaucracies tend to dominate the debate. It is expected that common constraints within the European Union (EU) might lead to administrative convergence. However, the point of departure of individual political administrative syst…
L’institution préfectorale en Grèce
The Office of Prefect in Greece : from Deconcentration to Decentralisation The Greek State has a recent Constitution (dating back to the 1820s). In order to allow for territorial unification under one central power, a network of prefects -placed at the head of departments -was introduced, to represent the centre and control the periphery. This System lasted until the 1980s. It was a statute of 1986 which instituted the region as a unit of deconce…
Abandonner ou renforcer l'état webérien
The merchant economy model, new public management, and network governance tend to blur the Weberian state model. Nonetheless, the imperatives of democratic control, of accountability and responsibility — the basic principles underlying the professionalism and ethics of civil servants — take priority over the efficiency emphasized by the merchant model and “democratization” promised by “new governance”. Contrary to what is often heard, the Weberia…
State reform in Greece
Purpose The paper attempts to assess the impact of reforms of the last 25 years on Greek administration and more specifically on its Napoleonic features. Given that those have been reshaped by country specific socio‐political dynamics, the analysis starts by pointing out the Napoleonic features but also specific features its Greek variant. These form the context of reforms undertaken and determine their trajectories as well as their limitations. …
Public management reform and modernization
The Odyssey of Administrative Reforms in Greece, 1981–2009
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…
La haute fonction publique hellénique
La haute fonction publique hellénique a souvent été reformée sans que les enjeux réels de son statut et de son rôle n’aient été véritablement traités. Impartialité et mérite ont occupé l’essentiel des efforts mais le rôle d’interface avec le politique n’a pas été clarifié. La mobilité interministérielle reste quasi‐absente. La crise économique a fourni l’occasion d’une nouvelle approche dans le cadre plus général de la réforme administrative. Il …
Administrative elites and the crisis
The nature of the relationship between the public administration and politics and the subsequent role of the administration appear to be incompatible with the emergence of an administrative elite. After analysing the reasons for this incompatibility, the article explores the impact of the measures taken in the wake of the economic crisis on the civil service and its reform, and also the prospects for the development of a senior civil service. The…
Tangling with the Troika
This paper analyses variation in the degrees of difficulty involved in negotiating and implementing loan programmes with the international lenders in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. All three countries displayed high degrees of ultimate compliance with fiscal consolidation and structural adjustment conditionality, but the pace of implementation varied significantly. This paper argues that ‘domestic ownership’ of the loan programmes is a key determ…
External influence on structural reform
The experience of Greece under the macro-economic adjustment programmes represents an intriguing case of the impact of external conditionality on the process of implementing domestic structural reform. After discussing the concept of reform capacity, the article looks into the specifics of its interaction with policy conditionality, in order to elaborate to what extent external constraint unleashes or hinders reform potential. In doing so, the ar…
Political science (17 works) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works)