Marina Angelaki

• PhD Sociology
• Assistant Professor at University of Peloponnese

Scholarly attention on pension reform following the recent global financial crisis has focused primarily on cases entailing the renationalization of private pension pillars. We argue that radical pension reforms should also include instances of radical retrenchment of public pension pillars. We offer an explanation of such reforms in the aftermath...

Pension reform is one of the top public policy priorities in advanced industrialized countries due to population ageing and the significant weight of pension spending in governments’ budgets. As a result of these concerns European countries have engaged in varying degrees of pension reforms over the last three decades. The extant literature on pens...

Pension policy is a highly political issue across Latin America. Since the mid-2000s, several countries have re-reformed their pension systems with a general trend toward more state involvement, yet with significant variation. This article contends that policy legacies and the institutional political setting are key to understanding such variation....

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a debate around the world on whether pension systems should be used to support individuals in economic distress. In Latin America, Chile, Bolivia and Peru have passed legislation allowing withdrawals from pension pots, yet with some significant variation. We argue that these measures cannot be simply understood bec...

Latin American countries have been at the forefront of pension privatization and since 2008 they have also pioneered reform reversals. Previous studies have focused on single cases or a small number of them, given that pension reform is a complex phenomenon arising from the combination of different causes. Using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative An...

Το παρόν άρθρο βασίζεται σε μια διευρυμένη αντίληψη των κρίσεων ως πρωταρχικά κοινωνικών φαινομένων. Εστιάζοντας στη λογοθετική δυναμική της ελληνικής κρίσης, προτείνει μια μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση που βασίζεται στη συγκριτική ερμηνεία των λόγων για την «κρίση» ως αναλυτική κατηγορία και κοινωνικό φαινόμενο, καθώς και στις συγκλίνουσες ή/και αποκλίν...

The National Documentation Centre (EKT) plays a pivotal role in the collection and dissemination of scientific and cultural content in Greece and beyond. The paper focuses on the innovative distribution model which funnels structural funds (from national and European projects) into a robust infrastructure comprising of developmental initiatives and...

Το κεφάλαιο επικεντρώνεται στην εξέταση της εξέλιξης του κοινωνικού κράτους στην Ελλάδα από το δεύτερο μισό του 20ού αιώνα και εφεξής και ειδικότερα των πολιτικών στους τομείς της απασχόλησης, των συντάξεων και της υγείας, επιδιώκοντας ταυτόχρονα τη διερεύνηση της επιρροής της ΕΟΚ/Ε.Ε. στους τομείς αυτούς. Διαπιστώνεται ότι η οικοδόμηση του κοινωνι...

Η υπερπεντηκονταετής περίοδος της σχέσεων της χώρας μας με την ΕΟΚ/Ε.Ε., που εκτείνεται από τη σύνδεση και τη Συμφωνία των Αθηνών το 1962 έως την εκδήλωση της κρίσης, την υπογραφή μνημονίων προσαρμογής και την ολοκλήρωσή τους τον Αύγουστο του 2018, αναδεικνύει κρίσιμα ερευνητικά ερωτήματα: Τι είδους επίδραση άσκησε η Ε.Ε. σε θεσμούς και δημόσιες πο...

To κεφάλαιο εξετάζει τη δυναμική διαμόρφωσης της ευρωπαϊκής κοινωνικής πολιτικής από τη Συνθήκη της Ρώμης έως την τρέχουσα περίοδο και πιο συγκεκριμένα την πρόσφατη προσπάθεια έκφρασης της κοινωνικής διάστασης μέσω του παραδείγματος της κοινωνικής επένδυσης, επιχειρώντας να απαντήσει στο ακόλουθο ερώτημα: σε μια περίοδο που το εθνικό κοινωνικό κράτ...

The extensive and radical reforms introduced in Greece's pension and health systems following the recent economic crisis provide a compelling case for the study of continuity and change in social policy. The article argues that a simple focus on retrenchment – as observed in pension and health in Greece in the aftermath of the crisis – provides onl...

This article considers that the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Open Access (OA) policy can be adopted as a policy model in European Research Area (ERA) countries for the development and increasing alignment of OA policies. Accordingly, the OA policy landscape in five ERA countries – Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK – is assessed and the exte...

Pension reform has been high in the agenda of countries around the world as a result of demographic ageing and its subsequent impact on the financial sustainability of pension systems and public finances. Consequently, reforms have been undertaken by countries in different regions over the last twenty years. At the same time, there is evidence that...

The chapter provides an overview of developments at both EU and member state level and assesses the shift (if any) in policy discourse and measures. The analysis of EU interventions shows the coexistence of two different approaches: the first relates to financial sustainability, consistent with the need to pursue cost-containement, while the second...

Το κεφάλαιο εξετάζει την Ανοικτή Μέθοδο Συντονισμού (ΑΜΣ) -ένα ήπιο εργαλείο διακυβέρνησης το οποίο εισάγεται επισήμως στο Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο της Λισαβόνας το 2000- ως μια προσπάθεια διαμόρφωσης μιας ευρωπαϊκής κοινωνικής πολιτικής χωρίς υποχρεωτικό χαρακτήρα. Ειδικότερα, εξετάζονται οι λόγοι εισαγωγής της μεθόδου, τα βασικά χαρακτηριστικά της, κα...

While Southern European countries have pursued a series of pension reforms since the early 1990s, significant variation arises across them. Focusing on the concept of political replacement risk (the probability of a goverment being electorally punished for pursuing a given policy) and the changes in the labor movement's organisational structure, th...

Το κεφάλαιο εξετάζει την πολιτική των συνταξιοδοτικών μεταρρυθμίσεων στις χώρες της νότιας Ευρώπης και ειδικότερα στην Ελλάδα, την Πορτογαλία και την Ισπανία. Η βασική υπόθεση είναι ότι ο σταδιακός χαρακτήρας των μεταρρυθμίσεων προκύπτει από την απουσία θεσμοθετημένων σχέσεων μεταξύ κυβέρνησης και συνδικάτων, στοιχείο που θα επέτρεπε την οικοδόμηση...

The launch of the Lisbon strategy and the introduction of the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) mark a new phase in the Europeanisation of social policy, characterised by a non-binding form of collaboration between member states. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the Europeanisation debate by analyzing and assessing the Greek response to th...

The chapter examines the politics of pension reform in Southern Europe by focusing in particular on the politics of pension reform in Greece, Portugal and Spain. It argues that the ongoing and open character of social security reforms in Southern Europe relates to the presence of three deficits: the absence of political consensus between political...

The global economic downturn has had a significant impact on southern European countries with economic growth declining by more than 3 per cent and the average unemployment rate rapidly increasing to more than 13 per cent. The crisis has raised the question of whether southern European countries will be able to remain within the Euro-zone. This pap...

The paper examines the major pension reform initiat ives undertaken in Greece during the 1990s and in 2002 in an attempt to draw conclus ions about the future evolution and prospects of the Greek pension system. Drawing on the new institutionalist approach and path dependence theory, it is argued t hat even in cases where change occurs this is "bou...

Over the past twenty years, dramatic demographic changes and negative economic trends have put significant pressure on the financial sustainability of southern European public pension systems. While governments in the region have responded through a series of reforms that reduced the generosity of pension provision, promoted supplementary pension p...

The European Union is presently facing new and crucial challenges. Doubts are publicly voiced about the viability of the euro currency and the project of a United Europe. Some governmentsare blaming others, especially those of Mediterranean countries, for failing to rein in their economic deficits, Southern European countries are being pictured as...