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https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v10i3.106
Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: The Greek Welfare State Before Past Choices and New Challenges
Polyxeni Triantafillou
; European University Institute
Sažetak
Greece is often a source of questions for the analysts of European social policy. Sometimes ignored due to limited interest, sometimes under-studied due to lack of available data, Greece only enters the debate about the evolution and the future of social policies in Europe in the mid-1990s as a result of the emerging academic interest in the “southern model” of welfare. Whether a “species of their own” or a distorted version of the continental model, the challenges that Mediterranean welfare states and among them, the Greek welfare state, have to face today are similar to those faced by other European countries. The aim of this paper is to explore to what extent the Greek welfare state has been able to respond to these challenges and at the same time achieve its “traditional” objectives. For this reason we look at two policy areas: pensions and protection against unemployment and assess them both on the basis of coverage (number and groups of persons covered, level of benefits) as well as principles central to the functioning of social insurance programmes (justice, efficiency and equality). We conclude that whereas the need to modernise the social protection in Greece has been underlined long ago, the adaptation to a new socio-economic context have been fragmentary and of limited effectiveness, either because of lack of long-term planning or due to weaknesses in implementation.
Ključne riječi
social policy; welfare state; Greece; retirement system; unemployment protection; employment; active labour market policy
Hrčak ID:
30154
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Datum izdavanja:
1.3.2003.
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