Origins of Reform Resistance and the Southern European Regime. WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 20

This analysis deals with reform obstacles in general and with the particular challenges of institutional change under the conditions of Southern Europe in particular. It presents a survey on the possible drivers of reform resistance. This includes very different qualities of approaches ranging from classical economics and political-economic explanations to more innovative explanations linked to behavioural economics. This classifying approach on potential reform obstacles is novel with respect to its broadness and systematisation and offers a basis for the measurement and empirical testing.