Welfare State Transformation In The Yugoslav Successor States

Author : Marija Stambolieva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134758753

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Welfare State Transformation in the Yugoslav Successor States by Marija Stambolieva Pdf

Welfare states are the product of economic, political and social interactions, and undergo changes as these interactions transform. Existing welfare state theories mainly tend to explain the emergence and development of the welfare state in the western, industrialized and capitalist world. While the states of Central and Eastern Europe have recently been integrated in the academic discourse, the countries of the former Yugoslavia have been predominantly excluded from comparative analysis. Issues of nationalism and ethnic polarization have been prevalent there while socio-economic issues have been put on the back burner. This book explores what happened to the strong social states and relatively equal societies which existed in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia, and looks into what accounts for these diverse outcomes. By investigating the applicability of the theories on welfare state development and typologization, it fills in the gap in the welfare state literature. It offers an original typology of social citizenship that takes into account the diversity of welfare policy formations across the region. The aim of this typology is not to compete with existing ones, but rather to offer a framework for better understanding of states that do not necessarily fit into known explanatory categories. In a global context of changing economic circumstances and contending political responses, macroeconomic policy and welfare state reform become order of the day. By featuring the ways that states adjust to new pressures, this book’s arguments may come in handy to those trying to make sense of the crisis and the powers that drive the policy solutions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036734730X

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Author : Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1421428016

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Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States by Mieczysław P. Boduszyński Pdf

In the 1990s, amid political upheaval and civil war, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dissolved into five successor states. The subsequent independence of Montenegro and Kosovo brought the total number to seven. Balkan scholar and diplomat to the region Mieczysław P. Boduszyński examines four of those states-Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-and traces their divergent paths toward democracy and Euro-Atlantic integration over the past two decades.Boduszyński argues that regime change in the Yugoslav successor states was powerfully shaped by both internal and external forces: the economic conditions on the eve of independence and transition and the incentives offered by the European Union and other Western actors to encourage economic and political liberalization. He shows how these factors contributed to differing formulations of democracy in each state.The author engages with the vexing problems of creating and sustaining democracy when circumstances are not entirely supportive of the effort. He employs innovative concepts to measure the quality of and prospects for democracy in the Balkan region, arguing that procedural indicators of democratization do not adequately describe the stability of liberalism in post-communist states. This unique perspective on developments in the region provides relevant lessons for regime change in the larger post-communist world. Scholars, practitioners, and policymakers will find the book to be a compelling contribution to the study of comparative politics, democratization, and European integration.

Author : Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801899195

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Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States by Mieczysław P. Boduszyński Pdf

In the 1990s, amid political upheaval and civil war, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dissolved into five successor states. The subsequent independence of Montenegro and Kosovo brought the total number to seven. Balkan scholar and diplomat to the region Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski examines four of those states—Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia—and traces their divergent paths toward democracy and Euro-Atlantic integration over the past two decades. Boduszynski argues that regime change in the Yugoslav successor states was powerfully shaped by both internal and external forces: the economic conditions on the eve of independence and transition and the incentives offered by the European Union and other Western actors to encourage economic and political liberalization. He shows how these factors contributed to differing formulations of democracy in each state. The author engages with the vexing problems of creating and sustaining democracy when circumstances are not entirely supportive of the effort. He employs innovative concepts to measure the quality of and prospects for democracy in the Balkan region, arguing that procedural indicators of democratization do not adequately describe the stability of liberalism in post-communist states. This unique perspective on developments in the region provides relevant lessons for regime change in the larger post-communist world. Scholars, practitioners, and policymakers will find the book to be a compelling contribution to the study of comparative politics, democratization, and European integration.

Author : Marianne Takle,Janikke Solstad Vedeler,Mi Ah Schoyen,Kjetil Klette-Bøhler,Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000910223

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Citizenship and Social Exclusion at the Margins of the Welfare State by Marianne Takle,Janikke Solstad Vedeler,Mi Ah Schoyen,Kjetil Klette-Bøhler,Asgeir Falch-Eriksen Pdf

This book presents a critical account of how citizenship unfolds among socially marginalised groups in democratic welfare states. Legal, political and sociological perspectives are applied to offer an assessment of the extent and depth of citizenship for marginalised groups in countries which are expected to offer their members a highly inclusive form of citizenship. The book studies the legal and political status of members of a nation-state, and analyses how this is followed up in practice, by examining the subjective feelings of membership, belonging or identity, as well as opportunities to participate actively and be included in different areas of society. Showing how the welfare state and society treat citizens at risk of social exclusion and offering new insights into the conceptual interconnection between citizenship, social exclusion, and the democratic welfare state, the book will be of interest to all scholars, students and academics of social policy, social work and public policy.

Author : Philip Mendes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351801775

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Empowerment and Control in the Australian Welfare State by Philip Mendes Pdf

This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare state. By critically examining the history and rhetoric of the Australian welfare state from 1972 to the present day, and using the author’s long-standing research on the Australian Council of Social Service and other welfare advocacy groups, it analyses the transformation from rights-based to conditional welfare. The Labor Party Government from 1972-75 is identified as the only clear cut example of Australia positively using welfare payments and services as an instrument to promote greater social equity, inclusion and participation. Since the mid-1970s, the Australian welfare state has gradually retreated from the social rights agenda conceived by the Whitlam Government. Australia has followed other Anglo-Saxon countries in adopting increasingly conditional and paternalistic measures that undermine the protection of social citizenship outside the labour market. In contrast, this text makes the case for an alternative participatory and decentralized welfare state model that would prioritize social care by empowering and supporting welfare service users at a local community level. This book will be of interest to academics, students and policy-makers working within social policy, social work and political sociology.

Author : Daniel Béland,Kimberly J. Morgan,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198828389

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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State by Daniel Béland,Kimberly J. Morgan,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson Pdf

This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are right up to date. The first seven sections of the book cover the themes of Ethics, History, Approaches, Inputs and Actors, Policies, Policy Outcomes, and Worlds of Welfare. A final chapter is devoted to the future of welfare and well-being under the imperatives of climate change. Every chapter is written in a way that is both comprehensive and succinct, introducing the novice reader to the essentials of what is going on while providing new insights for the more experienced researcher. Wherever appropriate, the handbook brings the very latest empirical evidence to bear. It is a book that is thoroughly comparative in every way. The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, second edition, is a comprehensible and comprehensive survey of everything that it is important to know about the welfare state in these troubled times. It is an indispensable source for everyone who wants to know what is really going on now, and what is likely to happen next.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004500068

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Social Security in the Balkans – Volume 3 by Anonim Pdf

The book presents a multifaceted analysis of the social security system in the Balkan states and offers a comprehensive overview and recommendations on social problems in the region.

Author : Andrea Ciarini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000903737

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Social Investment and Institutional Change by Andrea Ciarini Pdf

This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach as the framework for the European social agenda. The contributions gathered address these issues from different angles, placing two fundamental issues at the centre of the analysis. The first concerns the promotion of the strategic actions of European institutions and the national governments aimed at making social investment a recovery priority in the Eurozone. The second aims to make the social investment approach compatible not only with a high road to growth, as it is in the Stock-Flow-Buffer scheme, but also with the right to balance market and non-market activities as a universal right linked to a different combination of working and living time. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy and European politics.

Author : Asgeir Falch-Eriksen,Marianne Takle,Britt Slagsvold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000459074

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Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen,Marianne Takle,Britt Slagsvold Pdf

This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states. Answering key questions using multiple disciplinary approaches, the book considers how generations challenge advanced and robust welfare states; how new and young generations are affected by living in an advanced welfare state with older generations; how tensions or solidarity are understood when facing challenges; and what the key characteristics are of certain generation types. It contributes to the development of a more comprehensive generation approach within social sciences by developing the concept of generation by exploring different challenges to the welfare state such as migration, digitalization, environmental damages, demands for sustainability, and marginalization. Highlighting the escalating tensions and altered versions of solidarity between generations, this book shows how a comprehensive concept of a generation can create new insights into how we collectively coordinate and resolve challenges through the welfare state. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, sociology, political science, and social anthropology.

Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110721829

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De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States by Bent Greve Pdf

Globalisation, regionalisation, new technology, demography, voters’ expectations and re-structuring of societies are expected to influence welfare state development for years to come. This handbook analyses how different welfare state models and regimes will be able to cope with contemporary and future challenges, providing a variety of evidence based tools that make it essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers alike.

Author : Katharina Böhm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317013532

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The Transformation of the Social Right to Healthcare by Katharina Böhm Pdf

This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state research. While some work on health care expenditure exists, health care rights have not been systematically studied since social rights have exclusively focused on entitlement to cash benefits. Addressing this research gap, Böhm analyses in what way the social right to health care has been modified in the course of general welfare state transformation since the late 1970s. Taking England and Germany as examples, she assesses how health care reforms conducted under the conditions of constrained budgets, demographic ageing, and rapid medical progress, have altered access to and generosity of public health care systems over the past 35 years. The book’s findings significantly increase our understanding of social rights and reveals fundamental differences of approach: while Germany provides absolute and enforceable rights to health care for each (entitled) individual, English social health care rights are directed towards the population as a whole and contingent upon the availability of resources, i.e. they are not absolute and not enforceable. This distinction between individual and collective social rights will be an important contribution to the theory of social rights given its applicability to other types of social rights and its usefulness in tracing changes in social rights over time.

Author : Jannatul Ferdous,AKM Ahsan Ullah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003825425

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Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries by Jannatul Ferdous,AKM Ahsan Ullah Pdf

This book investigates the origins, current state, and fundamental value of social safety nets in developing countries, as well as their effectiveness in these settings. Social safety net programs (SSNPs) are critical because they keep those who are already vulnerable from falling deeper into poverty. Analysing how social safety nets benefit the most disadvantaged and marginalized members of society by allowing those in need to become financially stable, more resilient, and open up more opportunities for themselves, this book shows that social safety nets (SSNs) are a collection of social services designed to protect people from the effects of economic and emotional hardship. Showing that the purpose of the safety net is not to provide permanent financial security, but rather to provide temporary financial security during periodic shocks and how this applies in South Asia and also in parts of Africa, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, sociology, social work, and Global South politics more generally.

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet,Christine M. Hassenstab,Ola Listhaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107180741

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Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States by Sabrina P. Ramet,Christine M. Hassenstab,Ola Listhaug Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of how the Yugoslav successor states have coped with the challenges of building democracy since 1990.

Author : Čarna Brković
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785334153

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Managing Ambiguity by Čarna Brković Pdf

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.