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100			_aChristofilopoulou, Paraskeuy
245			_aProfessionalism and public policy making in Greece: the influence of engineers in the local government reforms
520			_aThe influence of professionals in the formulation of public policies has been an issue of scientific research in the past decade. In this article we deal with a less examined aspect of this issue. Professional influence is analysed in the context of Greek public policy, where the intensely centralized administration is dominated by the demands of political clientelism. Focusing on the case of the influence of engineers in local government reform between 1974 and 1989, the article reveals the role of professionalism in the hesitant decentralization of functions and resources to local authorities and the initiation of institutions that have allowed the birth and development of new organizations at the central
650			_a Professionalism
650			_a Local Government
650			_aPublic Policy - Greece
773			_aPublic Administration (U.K.)
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