Deparment of Political Science & Public Administration
Library of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology

2024-02-28

2024

Kotsiopoulou Konstantina

Καλλιόπη Σπανού, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Αντώνιος Μακρυδημήτρης, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Μαρία-Ηλιάνα Πραβίτα, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Χαράλαμπος Χρυσανθάκης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Θεόδωρος Τσέκος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Διοίκησης Επιχειρήσεων και Οργανισμών, Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Μαντώ Λαμπροπούλου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Χρύσανθος Τάσσης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής, ΔΠΘ

Οι θέσεις των πολιτικών κομμάτων για τη δημόσια διοίκηση και το κράτος: Η διαχρονική εξέλιξη της ατζέντας για τη διοικητική μεταρρύθμιση (1974-2009)

Greek

The political parties' positions on public administration and the state: the evolution of the administrative reform agenda (1974-2009)

The purpose of this PhD thesis is to analyze the dynamics around the process of agenda setting for administrative reform in Greece during the period 1974-2009. More specifically, it focuses on the analysis of the relationship between pre-election political platforms, parliamentary statements and legislative initiatives in the field of public administration. This correlation is crucial in order to understand how these different levels of policies and processes leads to the formation of the political agenda in the field of public administration in Greece.
In this frame, the thesis analyses the dynamics of the political confrontation between the governmental parties in Greece in the field of public administration with focus on the political agenda of the administrative reforms. Throughout the analysis of their political programs and the legislative processes and outcomes, it analyses the main directions and changes in the programmatic discourse of the parties in relation to the content of the administrative reform policies in Greece during the period 1974-2009.
The analysis is based on the election cycles. Throughout the examination of the pre-election political platforms of the parties, the correlation between the political ideas with the governmental initiatives around the issue of the modernization of the public administration is identified. The theoretical framework is based on the theory of the agenda setting which includes the successive levels of the public agenda, the formal/institutional agenda and the decision agenda (Birkland, 2007).
Moreover, the analysis is based on two variables. On the one hand, the degree of integration of the pre-election political platforms of the parties into governmental agenda with the form of legislative initiative and, on the other hand, the renewal and the transformation of the political agenda of the parties, especially the ones that dominated the Greek politics (New Democracy – N.D. and Panhellenic Socialist Movement PASOK) until 2009. During this period, the analysis of the parties' political agenda reveals convergences, despite (secondary) divergences and (sometimes symbolic) controversies.
Furthermore, the thesis analyzes the political platform of the parties and the governmental policies in the field of Public Administration in Greece during the period 1974 – 2009. The comparative analysis of the electoral political platforms along with the different political, governmental and social developments (leadership, political personnel, ideology, mass media, European integration) provides the necessary analytical framework for understanding the politics and policies towards the Public administration and especially towards the issue of the administrative reform in Greece.
Finally, this thesis falls within the discipline of Administrative Science and in particular Public Policy Analysis. In addition, it uses elements from the discipline of Political Science, as the role of political parties is crucial in shaping the political agenda and formatting the public policy. Moreover, the contribution of this thesis in the discipline of Public Administration is consisted by the fact that the analysis focuses in an overall view on the administrative reforms during the period 1974-2009 Thus, the analysis is not limited to short periods of time and to individual parties -as the already developed research– which indicates the original character of this PhD thesis.

Social, Political and Economic sciences

Agenda setting, Parties’ manifestos, Public administration, administrative reform, framing

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