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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inglot, Tomasz, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Public welfare.

Human services--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Human services.

Social workers--Europe, Eastern.

Social workers.

Europe, Eastern--Social policy.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 363 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-340) and index.

ISBN:

9786611383831

9781107187009

1107187001

9780511397288

0511397283

9780511510175

0511510179

9780511398056

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9780511396557

0511396554

9781281383839

128138383X

9780511400889

0511400888

9780511398865

0511398867

9780511402722

0511402724

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32396 hdl