Civil Service: Did Bailout Programs Lead Ireland and Portugal towards Hybrid Models?

Eva Macedo, Pedro Nunes

Abstract: This paper begins identifying a conceptual dichotomy in the civil service concept: a Continental broad model and the narrower Anglo-Saxon model. The article evolves providing a discussion on public service reform, following the footsteps of New Public Management that paved the way for the emergence of hybrid models that display traits of a mix between the original models and external elements. Hereafter it turns to Portugal and Ireland, two bailed-out countries, both obliged by the reforms agreed with the Troika, questioning whether these reforms had an impact on the pre-existing Civil Service models, leading them to transform into hybrid models.

Keywords: Civil Service models, Reform, Bailout Programs, Ireland, Portugal

How to Cite?: Eva Macedo, Pedro Nunes, "Civil Service: Did Bailout Programs Lead Ireland and Portugal towards Hybrid Models?", Volume 8 Issue 12, December 2019, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 701-714, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=ART20203263, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/ART20203263