Crisis, Reform and the Way Forward in Greece: A Turbulent Decade

by Calliope Spanou (Editor)

Overview

This volume discusses different aspects of Greece’s political economy during the past decade and reflects on the country’s path ahead, examining the major question: did this challenging period succeed in providing a window of opportunity for deeper institutional and societal change? The authors seek to contribute to the discussion of the dynamics of stability and change, of the nexus between external pressure and domestic agency.

Greece offers a most interesting case study, as much in analytical as in empirical terms. Never before did a euro area member require three macroeconomic adjustment programmes under stringent policy conditionality and external supervision. This experience shattered past certainties and reshaped the political landscape. A decade later Greece was starting to recover and received international recognition for its reform efforts. However, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an external shock that risks derailing such achievements.

The volume includes chapters by academics and researchers from different professional backgrounds: history, economics, public law, political science, public administration and political economy. Their diverse experience and viewpoints contribute to multidimensional analyses in subject areas such as Greece’s constitutional structure, public sector reforms, labour market developments, China’s expanding investment footprint and product market reforms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367193966
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/25/2021
Series:	Europa Perspectives on the EU Single Market
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Calliope Spanou is Professor of Administrative Science – Public Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. From 2011-15 She was the Greek Ombudsman, and she was Deputy Ombudsman in 2003-11). She has extensive experience regarding administrative reform in Greece and in other countries. She holds a PhD (Doctorat d’Etat) in Political Science – Public Administration from the University of Picardie, France. She has been guest researcher or professor in various academic institutions in Europe, among which recently the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Table of Contents

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The Editor and Contributors

Introduction

Calliope Spanou

Part I Looking Back: Shattered Certainties and Resilience

1 The Adventure of Globalization and the Greek State in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries

Kostas Kostis

2 Anni Horribili: The Years that Changed Greece

George Papaconstantinou

3 The Years that Changed the EU: The Greek Crisis and Euro Area Reform

George Papaconstantinou

4 From ‘Black Sheep of the Eurozone’ to ‘European Shield’: Ten Years of Crisis Politics in Greece

Lamprini Rori

5 Prime Minister and State-strategy: On the Risks and Value of Simplicity, in Response to Endemic Crisis

Ioannis A. Tassopoulos

6 Greece and the EU: Official Discourse and Public Opinion in the Aftermath of the Crisis

Calliope Spanou

Part II Looking Ahead: Opportunities and Challenges

7 Public Sector Restructuring and Marketization Reforms

Manto Lampropoulou

8 Reversing Policy Legacies: The Significance of Administrative Reforms

Calliope Spanou

9 Attracting FDI in Greece: China’s Growing Footprint since 2009

Jens Bastian

10 Reforming to Stay in the Single Market: Product Market Reforms for an Export-oriented Economy

Michael. Mitsopoulos

11 The Divergent Greek Labour Markets

Christos A. Ioannou

12 Challenges and Opportunities in a Post-pandemic Greece

Jens Bastian