Civil Service and the Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Iberian Countries (2008–2013)

Enrique José Varela-Álvarez (), Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araújo () and Óscar Briones Gamarra ()
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Enrique José Varela-Álvarez: University of Vigo
Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araújo: University of Minho
Óscar Briones Gamarra: University of Vigo

A chapter in State, Institutions and Democracy, 2017, pp 271-292 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Recent decades have been hard times for civil servants in western countries which systems were under pressure for personnel reforms. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) brought in an extreme stresses for changes and cutback management in the civil service. These were particularly deep in European Southern countries like Portugal and Spain where governments are introducing budgets cuts and private sector practices in the management of public services to reduce the payroll. As a consequence, many areas of public services have lost their uniqueness and become quite similar to the general employment system. The aim of this chapter is to do a comparative analysis of the changes in Portuguese and Spanish public services in recent years. The research is approached from a qualitative perspective, drawing on the analysis of the legal, historical and political changes.

Keywords: Public Sector; Human Resource Management; Civil Servant; Collective Bargaining; Public Administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44582-3_12

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