The Weakest Link? EU Accession and Enlargement: Dialoguing EU and Post-Communist Social Policy

Lendvai, Noémi

doi:10.1177/0958928704044626

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“…In most countries, pressure on the housing stock has eased due to the deferment of marriages, higher rates of mortality, and net out-migration. (Roberts, 2003, p. 492) However, these observations are made without clearly differentiating between groups of countries in the region and particularly between 'the first wave accession countries' and others, where many significant differences exist (Lendvai, 2004;Manning, 2004).…”

Section: Home-leaving In Western and Eastern Europe 619mentioning

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Home-Leaving and its Structural Determinants in Western and Eastern Europe: An Exploratory Study

Mandič

2008

Housing Studies

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This paper focuses on the occurrence of home-leaving and its key structural determinants across the enlarged EU. By building on the literature for Western Europe and by cluster analysis of the data for 24 member states, it seeks to explore different constellations of structural factors, manifested in the grouping of similar countries, and possibly resulting in diverse, regionally specific incidences of home-leaving by youths under 35 years of age. The exploratory analysis noted three clusters of countries: the north-western, characterised by the earliest homeleaving and best opportunity structures for independent housing; the south-western cluster, marked by the latest leaving of the parental home and only somewhat less favourable opportunities, but highest family support; the north-eastern cluster, characterised by late, yet not extremely late, homeleaving, combined with outstandingly unfavourable opportunities and strikingly low family support. These differences, partly confirmed as statistically significant, are further discussed and related to welfare regime typologies and their usefulness.

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Section: Home-leaving In Western and Eastern Europe 619mentioning

confidence: 86%

Home-Leaving and its Structural Determinants in Western and Eastern Europe: An Exploratory Study

Mandič

2008

Housing Studies

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“…Empirical -and increasingly theoretically informed -research in this dimension has emerged most prominently in the areas of regional policy (Baun 2002;Brusis 2005;Glenn 2004;Hughes et al 2004a,b;Jacoby 2004;Marek and Baun 2002;O'Dwyer 2006;Vass 2004), social policy (Anderson 2006;Cinca 2004;Guillén and Palier 2004;Leiber 2005;Lendvai 2004;Sissenich 2003Sissenich , 2005Woolfson 2006), environmental policy (Andonova 2003(Andonova , 2005Carmin and VanDeveer 2004), and Justice and Home Affairs (Grabbe 2000(Grabbe , 2005Lavenex 1999Lavenex , 2001Lavenex and Ucarer 2004). By contrast, studies of adjustments in the CEECs to the EU's internal market regulations are often not framed in terms of 'Europeanisation' (see e.g.…”

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Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2006

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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The Europeanisation of candidate countries and new members is a rather recent and still comparatively small, but -particularly since 2003 -a fast-growing research area. Research in this area has developed primarily in the context of the EU's eastern enlargement. More recently, a small number of theoretically informed, book-length studies of the EU's influence on the East Central European candidate countries have established the Europeanisation of applicant states as a distinctive research area. These studies fit within a common conceptual framework, which draws on the debate between rationalist and constructivist institutionalist theories in International Relations and Comparative Politics. This framework makes these studies highly compatible with analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, with which they share one key empirical finding, namely that the impact of the EU on candidate countries is differential across countries and issue areas. On the other hand, the theoretical implications of these findings appear more clear-cut than in the case of the Europeanisation of member states: rationalist institutionalism, with its focus on the external incentives underpinning EU conditionality, and on the material costs incurred by domestic veto players, appears well suited to explaining variation in the patterns of Europeanisation in candidate countries. The next stage of this research agenda concerns the impact of accession on the dynamics of preaccession Europeanisation and how durable the patterns of candidate Europeanisation are in the post-accession stage.

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“…Thus, the comparisons take West European countries as a reference point and are not intended as a comprehensive cross-national comparison. However, as significant differences between post-socialist countries were found with regard to welfare provision (Kovacs 2002;Manning 2004;Lendvai 2004) as well as to housing Lowe and Tsenkova 2003), differences between them should not go unnoticed. Thus, to inspect the internal variation, post-socialist countries are classified into three sub-groups: North East European (NEE) with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; Central East European (CEE) with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia; and South East European (SEE) with Bulgaria and Romania.…”

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The changing role of housing assets in post-socialist countries

Mandič¹

2010

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The paper discusses the ways and the extent to which home ownership in postsocialist societies represents a potential to serve as an additional source of welfare. First, the specific institutional context is observed, highlighting how during transition collectivist forms of welfare and housing provision gave way to more individualised risks coverage, thus strengthening the role of wealth and establishing home ownership on a massive scale. Secondly, the actual possibilities of home ownership to serve as a latent wealth reservoir are observed. To highlight the capacities and limitations of home ownership to sustain, store and release wealth, selected characteristics of households and of their housing are empirically examined by using data from EQLS. A relatively high incidence of unfit housing and of economic hardship and deprivation were found among homeowners, indicating their very limited capacity to store and sustain the wealth contained in their housing. This is particularly pronounced in comparison to West Europe. However, significant diversity was found also among post-socialist countries, as distinguished in three sub-groups; in the Central East European sub-group, the limitations were found distinctively less frequently.

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The Weakest Link? EU Accession and Enlargement: Dialoguing EU and Post-Communist Social Policy

Cited by 44 publications

References 29 publications

Home-Leaving and its Structural Determinants in Western and Eastern Europe: An Exploratory Study

Home-Leaving and its Structural Determinants in Western and Eastern Europe: An Exploratory Study

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

The changing role of housing assets in post-socialist countries

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