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Local Public Services in Times of Austerity across Mediterranean Europe

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Editors:
  1. Andrea Lippi

    1. Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

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  2. Theodore N. Tsekos

    1. Department of Business and Public Administration, Technological Education Institute of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece

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  • Compares regularities across seven Mediterranean states (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus and Albania) involved in the same austerity stream of reforms and sharing similar recessive economies and financial debt
  • Displays the Local Public Service as a crucial unit of analysis of the public sector
  • Provides policy proposals and recommendations for practitioners in order to deal with critical issues and side effects of the austerity programs

Part of the book series: Governance and Public Management (GPM)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: Local Public Services in Times of Austerity

    • Andrea Lippi, Theodore N. Tsekos
    Pages 1-23

  3. Importing or Constructing Austerity? Global Reforms and Local Implementation as a Case of Policy Transfer

    • Andrea Lippi, Theodore N. Tsekos
    Pages 25-48

  4. Greek Municipalities Before and During the Austerity Era: Imposed Policies, Local Resistance and Unsuccessful Reforms

    • Theodore N. Tsekos, Nikos K. Hlepas
    Pages 49-71

  5. The Biggest Loser? Local Public Services Under Austerity Measures in Portugal

    • Patrícia Silva, Filipe Teles
    Pages 73-94

  6. Spanish Local Government and the Austerity Plan: In the Eye of the Perfect Storm

    • Carmen Navarro, Esther Pano
    Pages 95-114

  7. In the Shadow of Austerity: Italian Local Public Services and the Politics of Budget Cuts

    • Giulio Citroni, Andrea Lippi, Stefania Profeti
    Pages 115-140

  8. Austerity Measures and Local Public Services in Cyprus: Coping with Challenges Old and New and Reinforcing Historical Continuities

    • Andreas Kirlappos, Philippos Philippou, Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides
    Pages 141-166

  9. Local Public Services and Austerity Measures in Croatia: Adaptations of the Resilient Social Model Through the Central-Local Power and Blame Games

    • Ivan Koprić, Mihovil Å karica, Romea Manojlović TomaÅ„
    Pages 167-191

  10. The Bumpy Road of the Externally Transferred Austerity Agenda in Albania and Its Fragmentary Effects on Local Public Services

    • Visar Dizdari, Arjeta Troshani, Elvisa Drishti
    Pages 193-216

  11. Conclusions: The Direction and Entity of Austerity in Mediterranean Local Public Services

    • Andrea Lippi, Theodore N. Tsekos
    Pages 217-241

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 243-248
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About this book

This book provides a comparative analysis of the processes and impacts of austerity measures introduced in the field of Local Public Services (LPS) across Mediterranean Europe. The book describes and compares the trajectories of austerity, and the types of effects. It investigates how many (and what kind of) different responses were given to similar inputs and under the influence of what factors in order to understand if there are regularities in the way that the Mediterranean countries adopted and implemented the austerity measures and how these latter impacted on local government and LPS management and delivery. The book is a product of a sub network from the COST Action LocRef IS1207 and analyses seven countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus and Albania).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

    Andrea Lippi

  • Department of Business and Public Administration, Technological Education Institute of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece

    Theodore N. Tsekos

About the editors

Andrea Lippi is Associate Professor of Political Science, Università di Firenze, Italy.
Theodore N. Tsekos is Associate Professor of Public Administration, The Institute for Technological Education of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece.



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