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The scope of the chapter is the assessment of the inadequate ways in which policy evaluation is used in the Greek public administration and more specifically in the local government, regarding both institutional design and service provision. For several organisational, political, social and, chiefly, cultural reasons Greece demonstrates a very low level of evaluation capacity. After analysing the different roots of the planning and evaluation problems in the Greek government and local administration, the authors discuss the limited effects on these issues produced by the country’s participation in the European Union. Finally, they provide evidence of the inability of even the urgent and pressing reforms imposed by the current sovereign debt crisis to radically change the situation.
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Tsekos, T.N., Triantafyllopoulou, A. (2018). Policy Evaluation Capacity in Greek Local Government: Formal Implementation and Substantial Failures. In: Koprić, I., Wollmann, H., Marcou, G. (eds) Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe. Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61091-7_19
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