Europeanisation, Independent Bodies and the Empowerment of Technocracy: The Case of the Greek Auditing Oversight Body

Spyros Blavoukos, Constantinos Caramanis and Emmanouil Dedoulis

South European Society and Politics, 2013, vol. 18, issue 2, 139-157

Abstract: The establishment of independent oversight bodies constitutes an important institutional reform in the European Union context. Based on technocratic expertise, they aim to curtail the state's policymaking and supervisory role. During the last decade, such bodies have been established in Greece, illustrating the ideational and institutional impact of the Europeanisation process. By examining the Greek independent oversight board for accounting and audit practices, we posit that its highly politicised mode of governance has undermined the purpose of its instigation and operation. Although such externally induced institutional reforms entail some ideational and institutional change, their full transformative potential has yet to be realised in Greece.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.784433

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