Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy
A process-tracing analysis of the executive state law in Greece
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6289818 |
|---|---|
| Autores | A Meert (0000-0001-7685-9055, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute), Athanassios Gouglas (0000-0002-6779-0751, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute), Marleen Brans (0000-0003-0468-2929, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 1035-1059 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501763.2024.2328342 |
| OpenAlex | W4392984787 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 35 |
This paper develops and empirically tests the novel concept of ‘decabinetisation’, a type of depoliticisation reform that affects the advisory and support offices of executive politicians. Reforms that restrict and constrain the work of ministerial advisers and reduce the political resources of ministers are puzzling, even more so when pressure to reform ministerial offices is absent. To understand why governments undermine a system that has been put in place to serve them, this paper investigates the provisions of Law 4622/2019 on the Executive State in Greece, using ‘theory-building process-tracing’ based on data collected from government documents and 23 elite interviews. Initially selected as an extreme case of second-order decabinetisation in the absence of pressure to reform, the study morphed into a more typical case that exemplifies how ministerial office reforms can be the result of strategic forms of presidentialisation. Decabinetisation can be triggered by the Prime Minister’s intention to ‘presidentialise’ the core executive in face of centre-of-government dysfunctionalities; policy entrepreneurs couple the problem and politics stream with the decabinetisation policy; but the reform becomes possible only in the presence of a critical juncture during which the power asymmetry between the head of government and other members of government is big
Business · Executive summary · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Process management · Process tracing · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Governing from the Centre
Process-Tracing Methods
Abductive Analysis
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Veto Players
Greek Ministerial Advisers
Introduction
The Executive at Work during Times of Crisis
Prime Ministers in Greece
Greece
The Politicization Conversation
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Decision‐Making Processes in European Governments
Political control of coordination? The roles of ministerial advisers in government coordination in Denmark and Sweden
Ensuring political responsiveness
The Denationalization of Cabinets in the European Commission
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
From policy entrepreneurs to policy entrepreneurship
The Prime Ministerialisation of the British Prime Minister
When do crises centralise decision-making? The core executive in the Greek economic crisis
Interrupting gradual institutional change
Revisiting Politicization
Straightening the three streams
Context and Causal Mechanisms in Political Analysis
Process Tracing and Elite Interviewing
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
The Study of Critical Junctures
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citações por ano | 4 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 4 |