Metamorphoses of Welfare States in Central and Eastern Europe

Potůček, Martin

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“…Full participation in the Lisbon Strategy began after their accession. Thus, social policy assumed a more important role in the European Union's policy agenda ten years after the Copenhagen accession criteria were defined and when all accession negotiations were concluded (Potůček, 2008).…”

Section: Initial Conditions and External Context Of Pension Reforms Imentioning

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Pension Systems´ Privatization in Central and Easter Europe

Potůček¹

2020

Problemy Polityki Społecznej: Studia I Dyskusje

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Introduction of the second pension pillars in Central and Eastern European countries represents a unique political, social and economic experiment. This paper offers the overview of this paradigmatic shift, taking into account both domestic factors, the role of international financial institutions and the European Union. Ten out of eleven countries-newcomers to the European Union-decided to implement it. Slovenia stayed aside from the beginning.

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Section: Initial Conditions and External Context Of Pension Reforms Imentioning

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Pension Systems´ Privatization in Central and Easter Europe

Potůček¹

2020

Problemy Polityki Społecznej: Studia I Dyskusje

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“…Research on welfare in the region has included studies of the politics of social policy (Cook, 2007;Cox, 2007;Cox and Gallai, 2012;Offe, 1993;Orenstein, 2008;Potůček, 2008), changing pensions policies (Fultz, 2002;Orenstein, 2008;Szalai, 2004), the influence of international organisations on welfare policies in the region (Deacon and Hulse 1997;Orenstein and Haas 2005), welfare assistance (Braithwaite et al, 2000;Nelson, 2010;Ringold and Kasek, 2007), and empirical studies of the INTERSECTIONS. EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS, 4 (1): 24-44. consequences of changing welfare provision for the poverty, income inequality and security of different social groups (Dudwick et al, 2005;EBRD, 2011;Emigh and Szelényi, 2001;Smith et al, 2008;Swain, 2011;Szalai, 2006).…”

Section: The Welfare Regime Debate and Central And Eastern Europementioning

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Bifurcation, Stratification and Informality in Post-Socialist Welfare Regimes

Cox¹

2018

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The essay assesses the work of Júlia Szalai on the concept of the bifurcated welfare state as a contribution to the debate on welfare regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. It locates her work in the context of the debate around Esping-Andersen’s ideal types of welfare state regimes and sees the bifurcated welfare state as offering a means of understanding the key features of hybrid welfare states in East Central Europe. The essay then examines evidence in support of the concept and explores possible ways in which the idea may contribute to the research agenda on welfare regimes.

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“…The post-socialist countries differ a great deal in respect of economic, political and social conditions and it is the CEE countries that have been more successful in transforming themselves into something like stable capitalist democracies. Their system of social protection now broadly resembles that of Western countries, at least in institutional form or structural characteristics if not also in policy or substantive content (Ferge, 2001, p. 135;Potucek, 2008;Hacker, 2009, pp. 164-7).…”

Section: Post-socialist Societiesmentioning

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“…Whereas the old practices continued longer in Russia and other countries of the former USSR, the CEE nations formed the vanguard of Westernization -phasing out old SPM and instituting the structures and forms of Western welfare (Ferge, 2001, pp. 132, 135;Potucek, 2008;Cerami, 2009).…”

Section: Post-socialist Societiesmentioning

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Globalization and the decline of ‘social protection by other means’: the transformation of welfare regimes in Australia, Japan and Eastern Europe

Mishra¹

2013

A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Second Edition

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This chapter considers the consequences of globalization for patterns of welfare identified in the literature as 'social protection by other means' (SPM) (Castles, 1989). SPM refers to the fact that there are functional alternatives to the institutions typical of the Western welfare state, notably social insurance programmes for income security and medical care, and demand management policies to maintain employment. SPM, although not considered as a part of the formal system of social protection, nonetheless may perform broadly similar functions, viz. those of providing economic security and maintaining living standards. 1 In this chapter the implications of globalization for SPM are examined in three different settings: Australia, Japan and the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Each of these represents a system of welfare that differs significantly from what may be called the 'mainstream' post-World War II Western welfare state. In other words what we are exploring here is the transformation of three different welfare systems or 'regimes', viz. the Antipodean or the 'wage-earners' welfare state' represented by Australia, the East Asian or the productivist represented by Japan and the state socialist represented by the CEE countries, in the course of their encounter with globalization. Although post-socialist countries vary a good deal in terms of their economic, political and social conditions as well as the nature of transition from state socialism they have shared certain institutional patterns characteristic of state socialism. It is this systemic feature that justifies their being treated as a single category. What form did SPM take in these three different sites? In Australia it involved (1) economic protectionism, including tariffs and strict control over immigration, meant to nurture domestic industries and ensure plentiful employment, and (2) a system of compulsory wage arbitration meant to provide the working man with a living wage (Castles, 1989). In Japan SPM took the form of full employment and job security maintained through a system of lifetime employment, and enterprise welfare

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Metamorphoses of Welfare States in Central and Eastern Europe

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Pension Systems´ Privatization in Central and Easter Europe

Pension Systems´ Privatization in Central and Easter Europe

Bifurcation, Stratification and Informality in Post-Socialist Welfare Regimes

Globalization and the decline of ‘social protection by other means’: the transformation of welfare regimes in Australia, Japan and Eastern Europe

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