Southern European public bureaucracies in comparative perspective.

Perhaps paradoxically, the comparative investigation of modern bureaucracies has been les advanced in European countries associated with negative stereotype of administrative performance. like is the case of the countries of Southern Europe (Greece Italy, Portugal and Spain). Comparative studies of moulds of government or traditions of governance usually do not include Southern Europe (eg Ziller 2001; Bevir et al. 2003) Bureaucratic mode of buildings in the four countries during the post-authoritarian period have not been systematically studied, level though after the mid-1970s the