Postcommunist welfare states : reform politics in Russia and Eastern Europe / Linda J. Cook.
Material type: TextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780801460098
- 0801460093
- 0801445264
- 9780801445262
- Public welfare -- Russia (Federation)
- Public welfare -- Europe, Eastern
- Welfare state -- Russia (Federation)
- Welfare state -- Europe, Eastern
- Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
- Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern
- Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
- Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- Aide sociale -- Russie
- Aide sociale -- Europe de l'Est
- État providence -- Russie
- État providence -- Europe de l'Est
- Postcommunisme -- Russie
- Postcommunisme -- Europe de l'Est
- Europe de l'Est -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1989-
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Russian & Former Soviet Union
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services
- Politics and government
- Post-communism
- Public welfare
- Welfare state
- Eastern Europe
- Russia (Federation)
- Sozialpolitik
- Osteuropa
- Kasachstan
- Välfärdspolitik -- Ryssland
- Välfärdspolitik -- Östeuropa
- Postkommunism -- Ryssland
- Postkommunism -- Östeuropa
- Since 1989
- 361.6/50947 22
- HV315.15 .C66 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Old Welfare State Structures and Reform Strategies -- Non-negotiated Liberalization -- Contested Liberalization -- Welfare Reform in Putin's Russia -- Comparing Postcommunist Welfare State Politics.
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"In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Most of these countries, she shows, tried to institute reforms based on a paradigm of reduced entitlements and subsidies, means-testing, and privatization. But these proposals provoked opposition from pro-welfare interests, and the politics of negotiating change varied substantially from one political arena to another. In Russia, for example, liberalizing reform was blocked for a decade. Only as Vladimir Putin rose to power did the country change its inherited welfare system." "Cook finds that the impact of economic pressures on welfare was strongly mediated by domestic political factors, including the level of democratization and balance of pro- and anti-reform political forces. Postcommunist welfare politics throughout Russia and Eastern Europe, she shows, are marked by the large role played by bureaucratic welfare stakeholders who were left over from the communist period and, in weak states, by the development of informal processes in social sectors."--Jacket.
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