Introduction: Social Policy Pathways, Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Cerami, Alfio; Vanhuysse, Pieter

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“…In general, social expenditure in the CEE countries is on average lower than in the Western European countries, yet considerable cross-country variation occurs (Jahn and Kuitto, 2010). Previous studies have revealed that the mostly Bismarckian pre-socialist institutional setting of the CEE welfare states influenced the configuration of the postsocialist welfare policies (Cerami and Vanhuysse, 2009;Inglot, 2008;Szikra and Tomka, 2009). Accordingly, the CEE countries should exhibit similarities with corporatist Western European counterparts.…”

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More than just money: Patterns of disaggregated welfare expenditure in the enlarged Europe

Kuitto

2011

Journal of European Social Policy

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Summary This article demonstrates the potential of the disaggregated expenditure approach in comparative welfare state analysis by applying it for comparing patterns of welfare spending across 28 European countries. An initial factor analysis shows that welfare states differ primarily along their emphasis either on cash transfers for the elderly or on social services and cash transfers for the working-age population. European welfare states cluster along these two spending dimensions in a way that to a great extent coincides with the well-known delineation of welfare regimes based on institutional characteristics. Furthermore, the results attest to the emergence of a variety of welfare arrangements in the post-communist region, yet with a general orientation toward a Bismarckian or conservative model. The results of this analysis demonstrate that disaggregated welfare expenditure measures retain considerable importance in elucidating the realities of contemporary welfare policy.

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More than just money: Patterns of disaggregated welfare expenditure in the enlarged Europe

Kuitto

2011

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…Such increases, however, might be limited or impossible if a more generous welfare state undermines economic competitiveness (Boix 2003; Muller 1988; Rudra 2008). Indeed, research on Central and Eastern Europe has revealed that higher levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade integration have led to cuts in social spending, while competition for capital has kept taxes low (Appel and Orenstein 2018; Cerami and Vanhuysse 2009; Mahutga and Bandelj 2008).…”

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Redistribution and the Quality of Government: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Petrova

2020

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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The welfare state literature has largely ignored the impact of a country's quality of government on its levels of redistribution. Using cross-sectional time-series analysis of twenty-one Central and Eastern European countries, this article shows that environments characterized by higher levels of corruption, rampant bureaucratic inefficiency and ineffective enforcement of the rule of law are associated with lower levels of redistribution. Poor government directly affects the supply side of the redistribution process by hindering countries’ ability to allocate funds to redistribution and deliver them to their beneficiaries. Contrary to existing demand-oriented perspectives, the proposed causal mechanism does not blame lower redistribution on the lack of public support for the welfare state. Rather, it focuses on the capacity of states to adopt and implement inequality-reducing policies. The results are robust to numerous extensions and model specifications.

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“…The notion that families with children, in particular, have a right to a minimal standard of social reproduction, including public health and education, is popular everywhere in CEE. 23 What emerged, then, in the bargain between electorates and neoliberalizing states was the oxymoron of a quaint "neoliberal paternalism, " an unstable compromise erected upon a fragile fiscal base geared to subsidizing transnational capital from the taxation of poor domestic labor.…”

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12. Post-Socialist Contradictions: The Social Question in Central and Eastern Europe and the Making of the Illiberal Right

Kalb¹

2019

The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century

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The Social Question in Central and Eastern Europe and the Making of the Illiberal Right Don Kalb Jan Breman and Marcel van der Linden have provocatively claimed that the Global South is coming to the North, rather than the other way around. 1 Not "development" toward Northern modernity, but the informalization and flexibilization of the North, as in the South. They see the global economic agenda as hijacked by capitalist interests that seek the precariatization and stepped-up exploitation of the world's laboring populations. Global agencies duplicitously present this agenda as one of employment generation and poverty reduction-and therefore representing the "general interest. " "Rigidities" stemming from the old language of labor cannot be allowed to derail this. The language of labor is a particularist trick on behalf of "rent seekers, " "insiders, " and "oligopolies of labor. " The rhetoric of global institutions has perhaps been changing slightly since the financial crises of 2008-2014. Global economic technocrats consider social inequality now evidently as a negative. But the demand for "structural adjustment" and all that it entails in terms of precariatization and the flexibility of labor remains pervasive, from the IMF to the OECD to the ECB. And then there are "the markets" with their imperious judgments and their rejection of inflation. There is no reason to believe that a new era has arrived. But as they are making this claim, Breman and van der Linden are sharply aware of differences and differentiations worldwide. There is no implication of global homogenization around a zero point of social dumping. But the overall direction they picture is globally shared, and it is useful that they state it without further ado. Until the recent revolt of "angry white labor" in the provinces-a symbol and figure of speech, of course, not a simple reality-social democrats and center-liberals of the "varieties of capitalism" school would certainly have responded to such a

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Introduction: Social Policy Pathways, Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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More than just money: Patterns of disaggregated welfare expenditure in the enlarged Europe

More than just money: Patterns of disaggregated welfare expenditure in the enlarged Europe

Redistribution and the Quality of Government: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

12. Post-Socialist Contradictions: The Social Question in Central and Eastern Europe and the Making of the Illiberal Right

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