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

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Inglot, Tomasz, 1961-
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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1 online resource (xv, 363 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Introduction. Understanding Past and Present Social Policy Development in East Central Europe -- 1. The Welfare State in East Central Europe: A Conceptual and Theoretical Reconsideration -- 2. Institutional Legacies: State Building, Regime Change, and the Development of National Welfare States in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary, 1919-1989 -- 3. Policy Legacies and Welfare States under Communism: Cycles of Social Policy Expansion and Retrenchment in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary, 1945-1989 -- 4. Historical Legacies, Welfare State Institutions, and the Politics of Social Policy Reforms in Postcommunist East Central Europe, 1989-2004.
Summary
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.
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9780511397288 (electronic bk.)
0511397283 (electronic bk.)
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9780511398056 (electronic bk.)
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9781107187009
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9780521887250 (hardback)
0521887259 (hardback)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index.
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