Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 8 of 8
Sort by
Postcommunist welfare states : reform politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Author:
ISBN: 0801479002 0801460093 9780801460098 0801445264 9780801445262 9780801445262 0801445264 9780801479007 1322503079 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In the early 1990's, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, 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 liberal 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. Post communist 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.

Labor and liberalization : trade unions in the new Russia
Author:
ISBN: 0870783777 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington D.C. Brookings

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords


Digital
Postcommunist Welfare States : Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Author:
ISBN: 9780801460098 9780801479007 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia : The Politics of 21st Century Exclusionary and Inclusionary Migrations
Author:
ISBN: 9781108875820 1108875823 9781108880794 1108880797 9781108891202 1108891209 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

What is the relationship between the expansion of international labour migration, informal and precarious employment, and growing nationalism? Welfare Nationalism compares 21st century MENA migrations to Europe and Russia, the Ukrainian refugee migration to Europe in 2022, and labor migrations from Central Asia to Russia and from Central and Eastern Europe to Britain. Linda Cook contends that exclusionary and inclusionary migration cycles exist in both regions, driven by the 'deservingness' of migrants and mobilized by anti-immigrant politicians. Arguing that the long-term deterioration of labor markets and welfare provision for nationals in Europe and Russia drives welfare nationalism, she shows how populist parties in Europe and sub-national elites in Russia thrive on scapegoating migrants. Featuring a unique comparative analysis, this book examines the increasing harshness of contemporary migration policies and explores how we have arrived at the daily stand-offs of desperate international migrants against Europe's powers of surveillance and enforcement.


Multi
The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare
Authors: --- --- --- --- --- et al.
ISBN: 9780801470349 Year: 2014 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Listing 1 - 8 of 8
Sort by