The Limits of Europeanization Structural

What are the limits of Europeanization? This book explores the impact of the European Union's agenda of structural reform on Greece. This is a setting that welcomes closer European unity, but which apparently struggles to adapt to the demands of adaptation. The book analyses why the domestic system has so often resisted adaptation in these important economic areas by charting policy initiatives over the last decade on privatization, labour market regulation, and pensions. Its findings raise questions about the scope of the EU to coordinate a programme of economic reform, alongside the inclusion and governability of a system that fails to deliver.

KEVIN FEATHERSTONE is Director of the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

DIMITRIS PAPADIMITRIOU is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.

List of Tables	p. x
Preface	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The focus of the book	p. 1
Why this case?	p. 5
The domestic political context	p. 9
Where the book fits in	p. 16
The core questions and argument	p. 18
The structure of the book	p. 20
The Europeanization Process and the Greek Political System	p. 22
Introduction	p. 22
Adjusting to external pressure: The Europeanization of Greece	p. 22
Hypotheses for the case studies	p. 35
Conclusions	p. 37
The Domestic Constraints on Reform	p. 39
Political culture	p. 39
The party system	p. 41
Neo-corporatism: Explaining the Greek shortfall	p. 45
Models of capitalism: Greece as an outlier	p. 48
Welfare regimes: Greece's skewed and embryonic provision	p. 55
Distinguishing the Greek case: An empirical check	p. 57
Research hypotheses for explaining policy outcomes	p. 60
Conclusions	p. 63
Whose Benefits? The Elusive Reform of the Greek Pension System	p. 77
Introduction	p. 77
The EU stimulus to domestic reform	p. 77
The wrong kind of mushroom: The key features of the Greek 'pension problem'	p. 82
Between appeasement and reform: Tackling the Greek pension 'problem' in the early 1990s	p. 85
Having one's fingers burned: The 1997 'Spraos report' on pensions	p. 91
The road to hell: Giannitsis's 2001 pension reform initiative	p. 95
Softly does it: The 2002 pension reform	p. 103
Let's wait for a while: ND at the helm (2004-7)	p. 111
Conclusion	p. 114
The Puzzle of Jobless Growth: The Challenge of Reforming the Greek Labour Market	p. 118
Introduction	p. 118
The EU stimulus to domestic reform	p. 119
'Greece isn't working': The weaknesses of the Greek labour market in perspective	p. 122
We really mean dialogue, honest! The road to the 1997 Confidence Pact	p. 125
What confidence? The 1998 labour market law	p. 130
This time is for real ... or is it? Enter the 2000 labour market reform	p. 133
'You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs': ND in power, 2004-7	p. 141
Conclusion	p. 149
Destination Nowhere: Restructuring Olympic Airways/Airlines	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
The EU stimulus to domestic reform	p. 156
Olympic Airways: The politics of non-management	p. 159
No cure available: Attempts to reform Olympic Airways 1994-2000	p. 165
Now you see it, now you don't! The birth of Olympic Airlines	p. 171
Pantheon what? ND in power, 2004-7	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 184
Conclusions	p. 188
The original hypotheses: Explaining what happened	p. 188
Reform capacity: Can Greece live with Europe?	p. 199
Does Greece want to adapt to 'Europe'?	p. 205
The EU as an actor in the domestic reform process	p. 207
The limits to Europeanization	p. 209
Appendix	p. 210
Notes	p. 212
Bibliography	p. 222
Index	p. 236
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The Limits of Europeanization Structural Reform and Public Policy in Greece

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