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Whether South European welfare states can accommodate the socio-economic challenges generated by the climate crisis has so far not been systematically addressed. Our article aims to fill this gap with a focus on Greece and Portugal. Deploying a mixed methods approach, we highlight exposure, sensitivity and capacity to respond to climate hazards and...
This article examines whether the path to recovery from the corona pandemic and the ensuing social and economic crisis can provide an opportunity for social policy recalibration with a significant redistributive impact. To this aim we draw upon analytical insights from the rich literature on welfare policy change. Prospective social interventions a...
Southern European welfare states had to face since the mid-2000s two major challenges. First, the financial crisis started in 2007-08 was followed by austerity policies and a “Great Recession” for a good part of the 2010s. Then, at the beginning of 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic set in.
This chapter focuses on the healthcare sector in these four countr...
This article investigates the transformative potential of the Next Generation EU (NG-EU) initiative in social protection taking South European (SE) countries as a test case. It starts with a brief examination of the main social parameters of the EPSR and how these intertwine with the NG-EU strategy that links recovery from the pandemic with the EU’...
This chapter examines the challenges posed to the European welfare
states by the combined effects of ecological, health and socio-economic
crisis. It consists of three parts. The first part briefly traces major trends in
inequality and polarization prior to and under the impact of the current health
and economic crisis. These trends are considered...
This article investigates the transformative potential of the Next Generation EU (NGEU)
initiative in social protection taking South European (SE) countries as a test case. It
starts with a brief examination of the main social parameters of the EPSR and how
these intertwine with the NG-EU strategy that links recovery from the pandemic with
the EU’s...
This article lays out a research agenda on the social policy challenges faced by the EU under the combined impact of a triple transition: green, digital and demographic. It takes as a staring point the double bind in which the welfare state is caught, between pressures from increased costs and serious socio-ecological concerns, and a need, more dau...
This article lays out an agenda for researching the social policy challenges facing the EU under the combined impact of a triple transition: green, digital and demographic. It takes as its starting point the double bind confronting the welfare state, pressured by increasing costs and serious socio-ecological concerns on the one hand, and the need,...
This paper lays out a research agenda for the challenges faced by the EU under the combined impact of the “green and just transition”, the accelerating digital transformation and the unfolding of unprecedented societal complexities by the covid-19 pandemic. Over the last decade the multifaceted relations between environmental policies and social we...
This chapter explores some major aspects of socio-economic inequality before and during the pandemic and reflects upon the future of the European welfare state. It consists of three parts. The first part focuses on labour market polarization and its impact on social protection. The emphasis is on the shrinking “middle” (i.e. middle-skill, middle-pa...
This chapter addresses the question of whether the austerity-induced reforms have reconfigured the scope and scale of the public welfare systems, undermined political trust and nurtured populism in South Europe. We start by highlighting cross-country commonalities and differences, prior to the Great Recession, in modernizing/rationalizing the main...
This paper aims to lay out a tentative research agenda regarding the challenges faced by the EU under the combined impact of the “green and just transition”, the accelerating digital transformation and the unfolding of unprecedented societal complexities by the covid-19 pandemic. Over the last decade the mutual impact of environmental policies and...
This article argues about the need for a step change in approach for bolstering the EU’s just transition goal. It briefly assesses the strength and possible effectiveness of the equity dimension of the European Green Deal on the basis of the following parameters: (a) the scope of the “just transition”, (b) the status of the European Pillar of Socia...
This chapter critically examines the health policy trajectory and reform dynamics since the restoration of democracy in Greece in 1974. After a brief Introduction, the second section highlights the distinctive features of the Greek healthcare system that make it a “sui generis” case in comparative studies. It uses analytical tools from the availabl...
The European debt crisis stimulated debate about the future of national health systems. The objective of this article is to contribute to this debate by examining any changes in the scope and content of universal coverage and underlying pattern of solidarity in South Europe. Access to healthcare provides the vantage point for our analysis. Ine-qual...
This paper critically examines the health reform trajectory in Greece in the last decade. The first part provides an overview of the Greek healthcare system shortly before the crisis, with an emphasis on the incomplete development of a national health system beset by inequalities in coverage and funding. At the backdrop of the crippling debt-crisis...
This paper comparatively examines trends in healthcare policy, governance and inequality in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, from 2008 to present. Over the last few years South European countries have been on a steady path to recovery (though pace significantly differs among them). Nevertheless, the grip of fiscal tightness on their national heal...
The European debt crisis stimulated debate about the future of national health systems. The objective of this paper is to contribute to this debate by examining any changes in the scope and content of universal healthcare coverage and underlying pattern of solidarity in South Europe. Our central research question is whether, and to what extent, aus...
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, rising levels of youth unemployment led to an array of policy responses involving learning, transfer, and experimentation to address the complex needs of youth at risk. Reviewing these recent experiences, this chapter examines nine European countries (including Turkey) representing a range of different schoo...
This chapter examines the main social reform challenges in Europe, discusses the responses to the Great Recession and explores various possible future directions of welfare state transformation. The available data indicate elements of convergence within a context of persistent significant differences, alongside distinct national patterns of change....
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This paper critically discusses gender equality in law, policy and practice in Greece. It consists of two main sections and the concluding remarks. Section 2 highlights a major inconsistency. Namely, although the implementation of the EU gender equality acquis in national legislation is considered quite satisfactory, in practice the countr...
http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/index.php/interviews/rethinking-greece/6616-petmesidou
This chapter tracks the unfolding of the Greek crisis and examines the main policy reform options under the three rescue-deals, which the country signed with its international lenders. At the centre of the analysis is a raft of significant reforms since 2010 in labour market policies, social insurance and health and social care, assessed according...
In 2010, amidst the financial and sovereign debt crisis, the launching of a novel European strategy for “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth” signalled a significant step in the European coordination strategies for tackling poverty and social exclusion. Crucial in this respect is the unprecedented prominence accorded to a quantified goal in pov...
Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed cou...
Η μελέτη επικεντρώνεται στις εν εξελίξει μεταρρυθμίσεις στα πεδία της υγειονομικής και μακροχρόνιας φροντίδας στην Ελλάδα κατά τα τελευταία χρόνια υπό τις συνθήκες της οικονομικής κρίσης και παρατεταμένης λιτότητας. Διερευνώνται, από μια συγκριτική σκοπιά, οι θεσμικές αλλαγές σε επιμέρους τομείς των παραπάνω πεδίων, οι τάσεις εξέλιξης των δαπανών γ...
This article compares the welfare reform dynamics and rescaling processes over the last few years in Greece and Portugal. It comprises four main sections. After an introduction, the second section briefly describes the salient features of social security, healthcare and labour market policy in the two countries in the years prior to the crisis. It...
The chapter examines the impact of the recession and of the subsequent austerity policies on health inequalities in Greece and in other countries hit by the economic crisis. Health inequalities refer to systematic differences in the self-perceived health status and in the access to healthcare services. The chapter also puts across conceptual and th...
South European countries have been hit hardest and longest by the post-2008 economic crisis. This has brought their welfare states under acute strain. Unmet need has sharply increased while significant welfare reforms and (more or less) deep cuts and changes in social spending have been prominent in the repertoire of the crisis management solutions...
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This article addresses the question of whether the economic crisis provides a politically opportune time to drastically curtail public healthcare in South Europe or whether, instead, there are signs of longer-term reform strategies for potentially balancing fiscal targets with the quest for enhanced value and health outcomes, when eventually growth...
South European countries have been hit hardest and longest by the post-2008 economic crisis. This has brought their welfare states under acute strain. Unmet need has sharply increased while significant welfare reforms and (more or less) deep cuts and changes in social spending have been prominent in the repertoire of the crisis management solutions...
Available at http://www.psa.ac.uk/insight-plus/blog/crisis-and-austerity-painful-watershed-greek-welfare-state
This paper critically examines the limitations and deadlocks of welfare patterns embedded in the statist-familialist regime that for a long-time has been pivotal for the institutional set up and processes of social redistribution in Greece. Changes to social protection under the combined effect of conflicts and impasses of this regime, and of an in...
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‘Modernization’ is a slippery term. It may take different meanings in different historical conjunctures and is easily malleable in ideological-political terms. In the 1950s and 1960s the modernization school in development studies equated modernization with Westernization, namely with an evolutionary process in diverse indigenous (traditional) soci...
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This article analyses recent changes in the Greek and Spanish national health services. The aim is to assess how the period of austerity and further recovery during the 1990s and early 2000s impacted on them in terms of equity and efficiency. This is of interest because of the closeness in time between the universalizing reform laws and the arrival...
Welfare states are undergoing a process of transformation that redraws the balance between the public-private welfare mix under the pressure of rapid socio-economic and political changes. Southern European (SE) countries experienced an expansionary phase of social welfare over much of the 1980s, but soon faced serious fiscal constraints that became...
For a long time Greece (and the other south European countries, with the exception of Italy) remained outside the scope of major comparative research studies on wel- fare state arrangements and social policy systems in Europe. This is mainly due to the rudimentary development of universalist welfare structures in the country until the late 1970s -...
This article aims to contribute to the debate on major changes in tertiary education in Europe over the last 15 years by focusing on mass higher education in Greece and the place of the social sciences in it. It examines the main objectives and effects of the significant educational reform, introduced by the Panhellenic Socialist Party in the early...
As a late industrialising country of the European periphery, Greece has a number of social structure and social stratification characteristics which sharply distinguish it from Northwest Europe. Moreover, significant historical legacies of an eastern origin1, combined with the dominance of Christian Orthodox religious values, also set Greece apart...
This paper examines the delayed development of the welfare state in Greece and its restructuring since the early 1990s. The emphasis is on factors, such as the rapid shift from pre‐Fordist to post‐Fordist socio‐economic structures, the weak development of contractual relationships and a solidaristic culture, and the extensive reproduction of a stat...
This paper examines convergences and divergences in the transition paths across Europe. The emphasis is on the changing relationship between politics and the economy in the regions of Europe and, more specifically, on the increasing penetration of politics in civil society and the consequences for patterns of social conflict, modes of competition b...
This article discusses welfare policy and the trends of development of public expenditure and the social budget in Greece in the post war period. Particular emphasis is given to the expansion of income transfers during the 1980s under the conditions of economic recession. An understanding of the relationship between the state and civil society in G...
Section headings: Abstract. Introduction. Manufacturing and the High Technology Sector in Greece. Labour Process Characteristics of Software Houses in Greece: a Case Study. State Policy & Technolog cal Change. Conclusions: The Preconditions for the Exercise of an Effective Technological Development Policy. Bibliography. 100 lit. refs. approx., 7 il...
