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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 July 2009
      12 May 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511510175
      9780521887250
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510175
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 382 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    A comparative-historical study of welfare states in the former communist region of East Central Europe. Inglot analyzes almost one hundred years of expansion of social insurance programs across different political regimes. He places these programs in a larger political and socioeconomic context, which includes the most recent developments since the advent of democracy. Based on this research, he argues that despite apparent similarities the welfare states of East Central Europe, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovakia since 1993), Poland, and Hungary have pursued distinct historical paths of development and change. He examines the highly unusual evolution of these welfare states in detail, tracing alternating periods of growth and retrenchment/reform, which he links to political and economic crises under communist rule. Inglot uses this comparative analysis of welfare systems to examine the continued influence of history over the politics and policies of the social safety nets in Eastern Europe.

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    'Overall Inglot presents a carefully laid-out conceptual framework of nearly a century of welfare state development in three (with Czechoslovakia's split in 1993, four) very different, if geographically close, countries in East Central Europe.'

    Source: The Journal of Austrian History Yearbook

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