SPANOU, Calliope
Les sirènes de la politisation - fonction publique et politique en Grèce - Paris : IIAP, avril/juin 1998
In Greece, the grip of those in political power upon the civil service is a permanent feature of a system which has been discredited by its excesses in this area. The denunciation of politicisation has henceforth become an obligatory theme in all oppositional discourse but has only been translated into practice by a number of limited and isolated developments. Rather than restricting political interventions, which inevitably come up against old habits of networking and patronage, the tendency has been towards strengthening the independence of civil servants by providing it with the necessary tools to secure this end
Les sirènes de la politisation - fonction publique et politique en Grèce - Paris : IIAP, avril/juin 1998
In Greece, the grip of those in political power upon the civil service is a permanent feature of a system which has been discredited by its excesses in this area. The denunciation of politicisation has henceforth become an obligatory theme in all oppositional discourse but has only been translated into practice by a number of limited and isolated developments. Rather than restricting political interventions, which inevitably come up against old habits of networking and patronage, the tendency has been towards strengthening the independence of civil servants by providing it with the necessary tools to secure this end
