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Welfare states in East Central Europe, 1919-2004

Tomasz Inglot 2008 © Cambridge University Press
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  • 9780521887250 (hardcover)
  • 9780511402722 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: 1400-1800
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Figures and Tables (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • Introduction: Understanding Past and Present Social Policy Development in East Central Europe (page 1)
    • Postcommunist Welfare States in Transition (page 3)
    • The Scope of Analysis: East Central European Welfare States in a Historical Perspective (page 6)
    • Summary of the Main Argument (page 8)
    • The Dependent Variable: Major Social Insurance Programs in East Central Europe (page 15)
    • A Brief Note on Data and Methodology (page 17)
    • Summary of the Book (page 19)
  • I The Welfare State in East Central Europe: A Conceptual and Theoretical Reconsideration (page 21)
    • The Welfare State as a Research Problem: West and East (page 22)
    • Understanding Historical Legacies of Social Policy in East Central Europe (page 43)
  • 2 Institutional Legacies: State Building, Regime Change, and the Development of National Welfare States in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary, 1919-1989 (page 54)
    • Social Protection as a State-Building Project (page 55)
    • Preexisting Social Policy Institutions (page 56)
    • Domestic Political and Socioeconomic Conditions (page 57)
    • Ideational Context: Foreign Influences and Domestic Debates (page 60)
    • Czechoslovakia (page 62)
    • Poland (page 78)
    • Hungary (page 97)
    • Summary: Comparison of Institutional Legacies and Developmental Stages of Czechoslovak, Polish, and Hungarian Welfare States (page 109)
  • 3 Policy Legacies and Welfare States under Communism: Cycles of Social Policy Expansion and Retrenchment in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary, 1945-1989 (page 119)
    • Policy Legacies and the "Communist" Welfare States in East Central Europe (page 119)
    • Cycles of Crisis and the Development of the Welfare State under Communism in East Central Europe (page 127)
    • Czechoslovakia (page 131)
    • Poland (page 147)
    • Hungary (page 176)
    • Summary: Comparison of Social Policy Legacies of Communism in East Central Europe (page 195)
  • 4 Historical Legacies, Welfare State Institutions, and the Politics of Social Policy Reforms in Post Communist East Central Europe, 1989-2004 (page 211)
    • Historical Legacies and Competing Explanations of Postcommunist Social Policy (page 212)
    • Institutional and Policy Environment of the Welfare State at the Threshold of Regime Change (page 214)
    • Institutional Reforms and the Replication of the "Emergency" Policy Cycles of Welfare State Expansion and Retrenchment during the Postcommunist Era (page 216)
    • Czechoslovakia (page 219)
    • The Czech Republic (page 226)
    • Slovakia (page 238)
    • Poland (page 252)
    • Hungary (page 277)
    • Comparative Summary: Path Dependence in Post-1989 Development of Welfare States in East Central Europe (page 295)
  • Conclusion: Postcommunist “Emergency” Welfare States and Theoretical Exploration of Institutional Change and Social Policy Development (page 306)
    • Theoretical Implications (page 307)
  • Bibliography (page 315)
  • Index (page 341)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SR 68.3 (Fall 2009): 675 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25621671
PoP 7.4 (Dec. 2009): 986-988 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40407125
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