1st Edition
Politics and Policy in Greece The Challenge of 'Modernisation'
Edited By Kevin Featherstone
Copyright 2005
290 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This rare focus on the politics of contemporary Greece explores in particular the country’s processes of public policy-making.
It is more than thirty years since the restoration of democracy in Greece and in this period the country has undergone a number of major changes. Domestic political tensions have arisen from the pressures of ‘Europeanization’ as a consequence of Greece’s membership... Read more
Introduction1 Introduction, Kevin Featherstone; Part 1 The Political Process; Chapter 1 The Changing Party System, Christos Lyrintzis; Chapter 2 Elections and Voters, 1974–2004, Ilias Nicolacopoulos; Part 2 The Public Policy Process; Chapter 3 The Role of Experts in the Reform Process in Greece, Stella Ladi; Chapter 4 Interest Groups in Disjointed Corporatism, Kostas A. Lavdas; Chapter 5 Constitutional Reform and the Rule of Law in Greece, Pavlos Eleftheriadis; Chapter 6 Deepening Democracy or Defending the Nation? The Europeanisation of Minority Rights and Greek Citizenship, Dia Anagnostou; Part 3 The Reform Agenda; Chapter 7 The Politics of Privatisation, George Pagoulatos; Chapter 8 The Limits of Engineering Collective Escape, Dimitris Papadimitriou; Part 4 The Reform Agenda; Chapter 9 Pension Reform in Greece, Platon Tinios; Chapter 10 Interest Groups and Health System Reform in Greece, Elias Mossialos, Sara Allin; Chapter 11 Developing Infrastructure as a Learning Process in Greece, Christos J. Paraskevopoulos; Chapter 12 The Europeanisation of Greek Foreign Policy, Spyros Economides;
Biography
Kevin Featherstone is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Director of the Hellenic Observatory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has written extensively on the politics of contemporary Greece and of the European Union.
