Greek Reform
8-9 May 2009, Yale University, USA
FRIDAY 8 MAY
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
9:45: Introduction & Welcome
10:00: Panel 1 - The Politics of Reforms: An Overview
Discussant: Yannis Ioannides, Tufts University
Chair: Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
Market Reforms in Greece 1990-2008
Nikos Christodoulakis, Athens Business & Economics University
Assessing Reform Capacity in Greece: Can Political Economy Help?
Kevin Featherstone & Dimitris Papadimitriou, LSE & University of Manchester
The Poles of Post–1974 Politics
Thanos Veremis, University of Athens
13:30: Panel 2 - Limitations and Failures of Reforms
Discussant: Harris Mylonas, Harvard University
Chair: George Pagoulatos, Athens Business and Economics University
Reform That! Greece’s Failing Reform Technology
Vassilis Monastiriotis & Andreas Antoniades, London School of Economics
Reform Failure in Greece
Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, University of Athens
16:00: Panel 3 - Socialist Reformism
Discussant: Christos Cabolis, ALBA
Chair: Haridimos Tsoukas, ALBA
PASOK and Welfare Reform in Greece
Dimitris Tsarouhas, Bilkent University
Socialist Reformism in the 1980s: Why Reforms Failed in Greece,
but Succeeded in Spain?
Takis S. Pappas, University of Macedonia
17:30: Panel 4 - The Impact of European Integration Discussant: Alexandros Yannis, Tufts University
Chair: Konstantinos Arkolakis, Yale University
Soft Europeanization and Institutional Reform
Stella Ladi, Greek Ministry of the Interior
Domestic Institutions and Policy Learning-Change in Greece and Comparable
Cohesion Countries (Ireland, Portugal)
Christos Paraskevopoulos, University of Macedonia
SATURDAY 9 MAY
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
10:00: Panel 5 - Dimensions of Reforms: Education, Pensions, Gender, Migration
Discussant: Haridimos Tsoukas, ALBA
Chair: Harris Mylonas, Harvard University
Gender Equality Reforms in Post-1974 Greece
Antigone Lyberaki, Panteion University
Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers in Greece
Christos Koutsabelas & Panos Tsakloglou, Athens Business & Economics University
Reforming Greece’s education policy and the Challenge of Migration
Ruby Gropas & Anna Triantafyllidou, ELIAMEP
Vacillations around a Pension Reform Strategy
Platon Tinios, University of Piraeus
13:30: Panel 6 - Regulations and Reforms
Discussant: Haridimos Tsoukas, ALBA
Chair: Yannis Ioannides, Tufts University
Regulatory Reform in Greece
Aristides Hatzis & Sonia Nalpantidou, University of Athens
Regulation of (and for) Competition in the Utility Markets
Charalampos Koutalakis, University of Athens
15:00: Panel 7 - Institutions and Reforms
Discussant: George Pagoulatos, Athens Business & Economics University
Chair: Nikos Barberis, Yale University
The Naked Emperor: Prime Ministerial Leadership and Core Executive
Management in Post- 1974 Greece
Kevin Featherstone & Dimitris Papadimitriou, London School of Economics &
University of Manchester
Strong Growth and Weak Institutions
Michael Mitsopoulos & Theodore Pelagidis, University of Piraeus
Democratization through Decentralization?
Theodore Chadjipadelis & Nikos-Komninos Hlepas, University of Thessaloniki &
University of Athens
17:30: Discussion - The Past, Present, and Future of Reforms
Short Initial remarks by Stathis Kalyvas, Haridimos Tsoukas, and George Pagoulatos
Organizers:
Stathis Kalyvas, Professor, Yale University, USAGeorge Pagoulatos, Associate Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, GreeceHaridimos Tsoukas, Professor ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece & University of Warwick, UK
The conference is funded by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund and the Hellenic Studies Program at the MacMillan Center, Yale University. The activities of the Hellenic Studies Program are funded by the Stavros Niarchos Center for Hellenic Studies at Yale University.