Politicians, technocrats and public officials as privatisation actors in Greece: asociological account

The article proposes a historical and structural study of the politicians, public officials, managers and experts involved in privatisation policies in Greece. The historical review traces the types of political actors who promoted privatisation since the mid-1990s, emphasising the role of technopols—economists who have built their careers at the intersection of university, economic policy and private companies. Multiple correspondence analysis is applied to datasets containing socio-professional information on key politico-administrative actors and managers working for agencies implementing privatisations. The results suggest that the field of privatisation policies is structured around an opposition between, on the one part, the partisan world that is objectively close to trade unions and social movements and, on the other part, an alliance between EU officials and corporate economists, while technopols still play an intermediary role between European economic orthodoxy and domestic economic governance.