Post Communist Welfare States In European Context

Author : Kati Kuitto
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784711986

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Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context by Kati Kuitto Pdf

Welfare reforms in post-communist countries are determined by economic and social hardship, democratization of the political systems and rapid structural change. This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive and systematic empirical assessment of the Central and Eastern European post-communist welfare states in the context of their Western European counterparts. Basing the study on new data on welfare entitlements and cluster analysis, Kati Kuitto systematically compares 26 European welfare states across three empirical dimensions. The author employs a multidimensional framework to analyze patterns of welfare policies and highlight spending priorities, financing and the generosity of welfare entitlements. Kati Kuitto thus sheds light on the hybrid patterns of welfare policies in post-communist countries as they have emerged after the period of transformation and discusses their future challenges. Unique and comprehensive, this is essential reading for researchers in the fields of comparative welfare state research and Central and Eastern European studies, as well as students and practitioners of social policy, social security and political economy.

Author : Alfio Cerami,Pieter Vanhuysse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230245808

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Post-Communist Welfare Pathways by Alfio Cerami,Pieter Vanhuysse Pdf

This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of explanatory factors such as micro-causal mechanisms, power politics, path departure, and elite strategies.

Author : Alfio Cerami
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3825896994

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Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe by Alfio Cerami Pdf

By explaining the path of extrication from state socialism, this book clarifies the patterns of the welfare state's transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. It identifies the emergence of a peculiar Eastern European welfare regime through the fusionof pre-communist, communist and post-communist features.

Author : I. Collier,H. Roggemann,O. Scholz,H. Tomann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230371514

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Welfare States in Transition by I. Collier,H. Roggemann,O. Scholz,H. Tomann Pdf

Social policy in East and West finds itself today in the middle of a fundamental transition. The former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the successor states to the former Soviet Union are attempting to create the institutions needed for a modern market economy and a modern democratic welfare state. At the same time, the mature welfare states of Europe are struggling to solve the contemporary financial crisis of their systems of social entitlements. Because of fundamental economic and demographic trends, these systems will become increasingly difficult to sustain over the coming decades. The contributors overwhelmingly agree that it would be mistaken policy to simply copy the institutions of Western welfare states to the Eastern economies in transition. Instead one can learn much from the experience gathered over the past half century in Western welfare states.

Author : S. Saxonberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137319395

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Gendering Family Policies in Post-Communist Europe by S. Saxonberg Pdf

Through the use of a historical-institutional perspective and with particular reference to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; this study explores the state of family policies in Post-Communist Europe. It analyzes how these policies have developed and examines their impact on gender relations for the countries mentioned.

Author : Mikko Kautto
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415241618

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Nordic Welfare States in the European Context by Mikko Kautto Pdf

This important sequel to Nordic Social Policy (Routledge 1999) compares welfare state development over the last twenty years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with that of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other Western European countries. Topics covered include: * income distribution, health inequalities and gender equality * gender policies, health and social care services and policy reaction to family changes * social security and employment policies * financing of welfare states. In the context of globalisation, ageing populations, changing employment patterns and rising inequalities, Nordic Welfare States in the European Context offers an empirical analysis of welfare adaptations and a lively discussion of the historical development of European social policy. It finds a greater ambiguity regarding variation and trends than is commonly suggested. Contrary to expectation, there is little evidence of the Europeanisation of Nordic welfare states, rather the reverse. The comparable and empirical data used in this study make it a unique contribution to understanding current trends in European social policy.

Author : Tamara Popic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031154973

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Health Reforms in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by Tamara Popic Pdf

This book provides the first in-depth study of healthcare reforms in post-communist Eastern Europe. Combining insights from comparative politics and public policy analysis, it examines health reforms in Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Poland between 1989 and 2019. The book argues that the post-communist transformation of healthcare policy has entailed a process of policy learning, and that the countries' reform pathways were shaped by a series of initiatives aimed at applying market-oriented policy ideas in healthcare. The success of these initiatives has been influenced by three factors: policy legacies, political competition, and institutional configurations. The book offers a novel comparison of health reform in the region and policy changes more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, health policy, and European politics.

Author : Kerstin Jacobsson,Steven Saxonberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317665823

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Social Movements in Post-Communist Europe and Russia by Kerstin Jacobsson,Steven Saxonberg Pdf

This volume provides a much needed update on the state of civil society in post-communist Europe and Russia more than two decades after the fall of the communist regimes. The chapters offer new perspectives on social movement strategies in post-communist Central-Eastern Europe and Russia. The chapters illustrate how social movements develop particular repertoires of action and contention, which are better suited for their specific local contexts in the post-communist setting. In Russia and Poland, the most popular and effective choices are using domestic and transnational legal opportunities, judicial activism and litigation that complement the traditional lobbying and mass mobilization. Human rights framing has become important in Hungary and the Czech Republic. The chapters analyse various types of rights-based activism that operate in otherwise prohibitive social and political environments, thereby raising highly contentious issues, such as animal rights, environment and sustainability, human rights, women’s rights, and gay rights activism. The contributions richly illustrate the often surprising and multiple ways in which transnational discourses and norm pressure are received, translated or resisted in the local contexts. Finally, the volume provides a novel reconceptualisation and offers new understandings of the relationships between the state and civil society in the post-communist context. This book is based on a special issue of East European Politics.

Author : Tomasz Inglot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 0511398050

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Welfare states in East Central Europe, 1919-2004 by Tomasz Inglot Pdf

Author : Pieter Vanhuysse
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789637326790

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Divide and Pacify by Pieter Vanhuysse Pdf

Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence. It shows how reforming governments in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been able to prevent massive waves of strikes and protests by the strategic use of welfare state programs such as pensions and unemployment benefits. Divide and Pacify explains how social policies were used to prevent massive job losses with softening labor market policies, or to split up highly aggrieved groups of workers in precarious jobs by sending some of them onto unemployment benefits and many others onto early retirement and disability pensions. From a narrow economic viewpoint, these policies often appeared to be immensely costly or irresponsibly populist. Yet a more inclusive social-scientific perspective can shed new light on these seemingly irrational policies by pointing to deeper political motives and wider sociological consequences. Divide and Pacify contains a provocative thesis about the manner in which political strategy was used to consolidate democracy in post-communist Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Pieter Vanhuysse develops a tight argument emphasizing the strategic use of welfare and unemployment compensation policies by a government to nip potential collective action against it in the bud. By breaking up social networks that might otherwise facilitate protest, through unemployment and induced early retirement, governments were able to survive otherwise difficult economic circumstances. This novel argument linking economics, politics, sociology, and demography should stimulate wide-ranging debate about the strategic uses of social policy.

Author : Mark Kleinman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : OCLC:1149035388

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A European Welfare State? by Mark Kleinman Pdf

Author : Tomasz Inglot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139472876

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Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919–2004 by Tomasz Inglot Pdf

A comparative-historical study of welfare states in the former communist region of East Central Europe. Inglot analyzes almost one hundred years of expansion of social insurance programs across different political regimes. He places these programs in a larger political and socioeconomic context, which includes the most recent developments since the advent of democracy. Based on this research, he argues that despite apparent similarities the welfare states of East Central Europe, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovakia since 1993), Poland, and Hungary have pursued distinct historical paths of development and change. He examines the highly unusual evolution of these welfare states in detail, tracing alternating periods of growth and retrenchment/reform, which he links to political and economic crises under communist rule. Inglot uses this comparative analysis of welfare systems to examine the continued influence of history over the politics and policies of the social safety nets in Eastern Europe.

Author : Christina Klenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Europe, Central
ISBN : 2874521825

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Welfare States and Gender Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe by Christina Klenner Pdf

This book focuses on developments in the welfare states of the ten Central and Eastern European EU member states in the transformation process some 20 years after the end of state socialism. It also explores the shifts in gender relationships and inequalities, and tries to depict the interdependencies between these two processes. The contributors to this volume tackle the following main questions: how far are welfare states and gender regimes in these countries comparable with the types found in Western and Southern Europe? To what extend were traditional institutions and practices preserved under the new circumstances resulting from the system change? How have gender relations been affected by EU accession and welfare state change through the transformation process?

Author : Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691214153

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Development, Democracy, and Welfare States by Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman Pdf

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist entitlements while conservative dictatorships in East Asia sharply limited social security but invested in education. In Latin America, where welfare systems were instituted earlier, unequal social-security systems favored formal sector workers and the middle class. Haggard and Kaufman compare the different welfare paths of the countries in these regions following democratization and the move toward more open economies. Although these transformations generated pressure to reform existing welfare systems, economic performance and welfare legacies exerted a more profound influence. The authors show how exclusionary welfare systems and economic crisis in Latin America created incentives to adopt liberal social-policy reforms, while social entitlements from the communist era limited the scope of liberal reforms in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. In East Asia, high growth and permissive fiscal conditions provided opportunities to broaden social entitlements in the new democracies. This book highlights the importance of placing the contemporary effects of democratization and globalization into a broader historical context.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Task Force on Economies in Transition
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309059291

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Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Task Force on Economies in Transition Pdf

This ground-breaking new volume focuses on the interaction between political, social, and economic change in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States. It includes a wide selection of analytic papers, thought-provoking essays by leading scholars in diverse fields, and an agenda for future research. It integrates work on the micro and macro levels of the economy and provides a broad overview of the transition process. This volume broadens the current intellectual and policy debate concerning the historic transition now taking place from a narrow concern with purely economic factors to the dynamics of political and social change. It questions the assumption that the post-communist economies are all following the same path and that they will inevitably develop into replicas of economies in the advanced industrial West. It challenges accepted thinking and promotes the utilization of new methods and perspectives.