Social Justice And The Welfare State In Central And Eastern Europe

Author : Demetrius S. Iatridis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313028786

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Social Justice and the Welfare State in Central and Eastern Europe by Demetrius S. Iatridis Pdf

With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, Central and Eastern European states have had to confront fundamental changes in economic, social, and governmental structures. So far, many of these countries in transition from a command to a market-based system have experienced rapid deterioration of socioeconomic conditions and standards of living. Although there have been successes in some areas, such as greater political and consumer choices, the overall situation has reached crisis proportions, as evidenced by increased unemployment, crime, and family disorganization. The essays in this collection address significant issues dealing with the frameworks of social justice and equality, policies for families and women, implications for the welfare state, and the impact on health care. As such, the collection is invaluable for all scholars and researchers involved with contemporary Central and Eastern European public policy and social conditions.

Author : Bob Deacon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : UCSC:32106010501150

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Social Policy, Social Justice and Citizenship in Eastern Europe by Bob Deacon Pdf

A collection of papers on aspects of East European and Soviet social policy which address issues of social policy as the countries described move from centrally planned to market and capitalist economies. The text reports some of the first problems to surface after the old regimes were overthrown.

Author : Alfio Cerami
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Wim van Oorschot,Michael Opielka,Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848440234

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Culture and Welfare State by Wim van Oorschot,Michael Opielka,Birgit Pfau-Effinger Pdf

. . . the book focuses on a very interesting and important. . . dimension of welfare analysis. . . the book provides a very rich and interesting range of analyses of the complex links between culture and welfare state. It deserves to be read both by advanced undergraduates and academics working in this area, and perhaps should also be read by policy-makers and politicians as a useful corrective to an overly economistic approach to welfare in the straitened years ahead. Rob Sykes, Social Policy and Administration The essays in this collection advance cultural analysis of the welfare state by describing the experiences of a large array of developed nations. . . Highly recommended. D. Stoesz, Choice Culture and Welfare State provides comparative studies on the interplay between cultural factors and welfare policies. Starting with an analysis of the historical and cultural foundations of Western European welfare states, reflected in the competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism and socialism, the book goes on to compare the Western European welfare model to those in North America, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Comprehensive and engaging, this volume examines not only the relationships between cultural change and welfare restructuring, taking empirical evidence from policy reforms in contemporary Europe, but also the popular legitimacy of welfare, focusing particularly on the underlying values, beliefs and attitudes of people in European countries. This book will be of great interest to sociologists and political scientists, as well as social policy experts interested in a cultural perspective on the welfare state.

Author : Benjamin Veghte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351899444

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Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State by Benjamin Veghte Pdf

Drawing together leading international experts such as Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y. Shapiro, Stefan Svallfors and Wim van Oorschot, this volume addresses issues of justice and legitimacy in the context of welfare state transformation. The contributors demonstrate that the Western welfare state is not at risk of losing support or encountering fundamental opposition, but does face serious challenges including growing social and ethnic diversity, new social risks, fiscal constraints and contested notions of justice. The volume focuses on four main aspects: attitude formation in cross-national perspective, the just distribution of burdens and benefits, political factors mediating the effects of social attitudes on public policy and challenges to the welfare state stemming from immigration and ethnic diversity. Providing a comparative perspective on the issue, Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State makes a significant contribution to the literature on the public standing of the welfare state.

Author : Robert Urbé
Publisher : Lambertus-Verlag
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783784124520

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The Future of the Welfare State by Robert Urbé Pdf

The Future of Europe has to be social, or there will be no Future! Welfare in itself is a concept that is dependent on cultural differences. These provide an explanation for the different historically-rooted welfare concepts throughout European countries. For our research we have consciously focused on European Union member countries, the number of countries involved in one way or another in the project is twenty. According to Esping-Andersen we differentiate three different types of Welfare models: the liberal "Beveridge systems, the conservative, corporatist "Bismarck systems and the social democratic or Scandinavian (Nordic) regimes. Our working group decided to opt for an "own class of countries belonging to a "Mediterranean Model. And we added also a group of "Central and Eastern European Systems. After having described these systems and their development, we have examined if, and to what extent the countries of a given regime are all following the same trends and developments. The question of a possible convergence of all these models in one future European social model was also investigated. At the end the most important questions remain: How can we overcome the austerity paradigm and move towards a cohesive society where everyone participates according to his means and where everybody gets according to his needs? How can we agree on a minimum socket of social rights in all European Countries

Author : Peter Koslowski,Andreas Follesdal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642606526

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Restructuring the Welfare State by Peter Koslowski,Andreas Follesdal Pdf

The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also in these countries where the crisis and financial problems of the welfare state are felt first. The need for restructuring the welfare state is a challenge of a supra-national, European and international scale. The book analyses the different welfare states in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden with outlooks to Eastern Europe and Japan and examines the proposals for reforming and restructuring the welfare state in Europe. The book offers a unique combination of empirical and philosophical-ethical analysis of the welfare state.

Author : Romano, Serena
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447312734

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The political and social construction of poverty by Romano, Serena Pdf

Poverty is not a neutral phenomenon, nor are social inclusion programmes neutrally conceived, designed and implemented.Their ultimate nature is built upon ideas, values, actors, politics and economic constraints.This topical book is one of the first to examine the social and political construction of anti-poverty programmes in Central Eastern Europe and their transformation from communist rule to the current economic crisis. It covers the approach towards the ‘parasite’ poor through to Guaranteed Minimum Income Schemes and illustrates how the distinction between different categories of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor has evolved over the years as the result of changing paradigms, combined with the pressure exerted by domestic and international actors, the European Union and the World Bank among others. This text breaks new ground for social policy students and scholars interested in understanding how differently post-communist welfare states have represented, legitimised and dealt with poverty, need and social justice in accordance with divergent normative frameworks constructed at national level.

Author : Francis G. Castles,Stephan Leibfried,Jane Lewis,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191628283

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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State by Francis G. Castles,Stephan Leibfried,Jane Lewis,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

Author : Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies Stephan Haggard,Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691135960

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Development, Democracy, and Welfare States by Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies Stephan Haggard,Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman Pdf

Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.

Author : Maja Gerovska Mitev
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031512322

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Social Work and Social Policy Transformations in Central and Southeast Europe by Maja Gerovska Mitev Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1051481860

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Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351328395

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Social Justice and Political Change by David Mason Pdf

Analysis and debate about economic and political justice rarely involves research on the views of the common person. Scholars often make assumptions about what common people think is fair, but for the most part they confine their thinking to a single country and argue on rational or moral grounds, with little supporting empirical data. Social Justice and Political Change, involves the collaboration of thirty social scientists in twelve countries, and represents broad-ranging comparative research. The book grows out of a collaborative study of public opinion about social justice. Though conceived prior to the revolutions that swept Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, the ISJP did not put its survey into the field until the summer of 1991, in a new climate of open international exchange in social research. Employing common methods of data collection and, within the limits of translation, identical survey instruments, the ISJP investigated public opinion in seven newly emerging post-Communist countries and five of the worldi?1/2s most influential capitalist democracies, with special sensitivity to divergencies in the newly united Germany. Among the themes addressed by the volumei?1/2s distinguished contributors are the views and beliefs of citizens in the post-Communist states on the transition to market economies and parliamentary democracy; the role of ideology in legitimating inequality; the structural determination of beliefs about justice; the processes that shape individual level evaluations; and the major implications of public opinion and mass participation in the democratic process.

Author : Catherine Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415070422

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New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe by Catherine Jones Pdf

Not since the 1940s has there been such comprehensive scope for uncertainty within and about Europe. New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe offers an appraisal of comparative social policy and applies it to current uncertainties concerning European communities and European-North American and East Asian relationships. Including contributions from Deakin, Klein, Leibfried, Mishra and Rose the work should provide essential reading for students, researchers, lecturers and policy makers in social policy, politics and sociology.

Author : Bill Jordan
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024922275

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The New Politics of Welfare by Bill Jordan Pdf

The New Politics of Welfare provides a critical introduction to the debates and politics surrounding welfare reform in the United Kingdom and the United States. By explaining the origins of and main tenets of the Blair-Clinton orthodoxy, and comparing policy in Western Europe with the dilemmas facing the governments of Central and Eastern Europe, this is the first text to place the reform process in the context of the present global political and economic situation.