Post-Communist Welfare Pathways: Theorizing Social Policy Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Social Policy Pathways, Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Social Policy in East Central Europe: Major Trends in the Twentieth Century....Pages 17-34
Mechanisms of Institutional Change in Central and Eastern European Welfare State Restructuring....Pages 35-52
Power, Order and the Politics of Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 53-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia: Adaptation and Reform of the Post-Communist ‘Emergency Welfare States’....Pages 73-95
The Transformation of Welfare Systems in the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania....Pages 96-111
Welfare State Transformations in Bulgaria and Romania....Pages 112-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Transnational Actors in Central and East European Pension Reforms....Pages 129-147
Elder Care Systems: Policy Transfer and Europeanization....Pages 148-163
The Impact of Minimum Income Guarantee Schemes in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 164-180
Devolution of Social Protection Arrangements....Pages 181-198
The Impact of the EU Social Inclusion Strategy: the Czech Case....Pages 199-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
The Eastern European Welfare State in Comparative Perspective....Pages 217-236
Epilogue: Lessons Learnt and Open Questions....Pages 237-247
Back Matter....Pages 248-289