Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging
conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government …

Levering domestic reform via external conditionality has become crucial to the rescues of
European Union member states in the context of the eurozone crisis. This article examines a …

Why do countries respond differently when they face the same pandemic? In this article, we
comparatively investigate the effects of policy styles in shaping responses to the COVID-19 …

Given the performance of the Greek economy prior to the crisis, austerity could hardly have
been avoided in 2010. But the austerity policies pursued since then were regressive and did …

Philosophy and Public Administration provides a systematic and comprehensive
introduction to the philosophical foundations of the study and practice of public …

Analysing the handling of the pandemic's first phase in Greece, the article attempts to
explain the reasons for its relative success. It suggests four main reasons: First, the …

Ambidextrous leadership reflects a style that combines opening and closing behaviors,
which can stimulate employees to engage in both exploration and exploitation. Drawing …

The vulnerability of the four south European countries (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) to
the global financial turmoil makes the analysis of their responses to the fiscal crisis …

The Great Recession has had a deep impact on employment levels and on income
inequality in the Southern European countries (Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy). It has …