Overview
- Compares regularities across seven Mediterranean states (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus and Albania) involved in the same austerity stream of reforms and sharing similar recessive economies and financial debt
- Displays the Local Public Service as a crucial unit of analysis of the public sector
- Provides policy proposals and recommendations for practitioners in order to deal with critical issues and side effects of the austerity programs
Part of the book series: Governance and Public Management (GPM)
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Keywords
- Austerity state
- Mediterranean Europe
- Local Public Service
- Local Governance
- Policy Transfer
- Austerity strategies
- austerity instruments
- fiscal politics
- clientelism
- non-weberian bureaucracy
- bailout agreements
- Kallikrates and Kapodistria Plans
- blame avoidance
- recentralization
- financial retrenchment
- fiscal consolidation
- economic crisis
- austerity policies
- deinsitutionalization
- privatization
Table of contents (10 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Theodore N. Tsekos is Associate Professor of Public Administration, The Institute for Technological Education of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Local Public Services in Times of Austerity across Mediterranean Europe
Editors: Andrea Lippi, Theodore N. Tsekos
Series Title: Governance and Public Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76225-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76224-1Published: 10 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09434-8Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76225-8Published: 25 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-728X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Electoral Politics, European Politics, Governance and Government, Political Leadership, Legislative and Executive Politics