Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about
populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical …

Departing from the post-war Weberian-oriented bureaucratic model, the Greek
administrative system has been subjected to several reform programmes with a view to its …

Accurate knowledge about societal conditions and public policies is an important public
good in any polity, yet governments across the world differ dramatically in the extent to which …

This article aims to explain cross-country variations in a paradigmatic element of the new
public management reforms: the shift from low-powered incentives (ie, flat salaries) to high …

This paper presents a hypothesis for understanding democratic stability based on the
distinction between politicized and meritocratic bureaucracies. We argue that in a politicized …

Since the late nineteenth century, the presence of an independent and meritocratic
bureaucracy has been posited as an advantage for effective bureaucratic behaviour and a …

The study analyses the stock and the change of social capital in Greece at the onset of the
economic crisis and tests for the effect of soft social capital elements on civic participation …

Public servants have a significant impact on peoples' lives, but we don't have many reliable
estimates of how many employees engage in prosocial rule-breaking (PSRB), a form of …

This contribution discusses the politicization of the civil service system in Kosovo as a
framework through which politicians exert influence in the system. The article employs the …

The energy sector in Greece has been undergoing multiple processes of diversification,
privatization and neoliberal restructuring, following EU imperatives for common energy …