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The Enemy Within: Intragovernmental Politics and Organizational Failure in Greek Privatization
Author(s) -
Pagoulatos George
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9299.00249
Subject(s) - statism , politics , mainstream , context (archaeology) , state (computer science) , political science , political economy , adversary , economics , economic system , public administration , law , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , algorithm , computer science , biology
Mainstream approaches explain privatization policy failure by taking account of the surrounding sociopolitical and economic context. This article examines the unsuccessful Greek privatization over the first half of the 1990s by following an alternative approach. It looks at the obstacles originating from intragovernmental politics and the state organizational structures and resources. Contrary to what the British or French experience would suggest, the adoption of a statist, impositional policy‐making strategy in the Greek case failed to achieve policy effectiveness. Indeed, it probably ended up accelerating policy failure. The employment of statism as a policy‐making strategy was undermined by the structural weaknesses of the state.