Social Justice And The Welfare State In Central And Eastern Europe

Author : Demetrius S. Iatridis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313028788
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and the Welfare State in Central and Eastern Europe written by Demetrius S. Iatridis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-04-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, Central and Eastern European states have had to confront fundamental changes in economic, social, and governmental structures. So far, many of these countries in transition from a command to a market-based system have experienced rapid deterioration of socioeconomic conditions and standards of living. Although there have been successes in some areas, such as greater political and consumer choices, the overall situation has reached crisis proportions, as evidenced by increased unemployment, crime, and family disorganization. The essays in this collection address significant issues dealing with the frameworks of social justice and equality, policies for families and women, implications for the welfare state, and the impact on health care. As such, the collection is invaluable for all scholars and researchers involved with contemporary Central and Eastern European public policy and social conditions.

Author : Bob Deacon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Policy, Social Justice and Citizenship in Eastern Europe written by Bob Deacon and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers on aspects of East European and Soviet social policy which address issues of social policy as the countries described move from centrally planned to market and capitalist economies. The text reports some of the first problems to surface after the old regimes were overthrown.

Author : Alfio Cerami
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825896997
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe written by Alfio Cerami and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By explaining the path of extrication from state socialism, this book clarifies the patterns of the welfare state's transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. It identifies the emergence of a peculiar Eastern European welfare regime through the fusionof pre-communist, communist and post-communist features.

Author : Benjamin Veghte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351899449
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State written by Benjamin Veghte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together leading international experts such as Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y. Shapiro, Stefan Svallfors and Wim van Oorschot, this volume addresses issues of justice and legitimacy in the context of welfare state transformation. The contributors demonstrate that the Western welfare state is not at risk of losing support or encountering fundamental opposition, but does face serious challenges including growing social and ethnic diversity, new social risks, fiscal constraints and contested notions of justice. The volume focuses on four main aspects: attitude formation in cross-national perspective, the just distribution of burdens and benefits, political factors mediating the effects of social attitudes on public policy and challenges to the welfare state stemming from immigration and ethnic diversity. Providing a comparative perspective on the issue, Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State makes a significant contribution to the literature on the public standing of the welfare state.

Author : Wim van Oorschot
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848440235
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Welfare State written by Wim van Oorschot and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . the book focuses on a very interesting and important. . . dimension of welfare analysis. . . the book provides a very rich and interesting range of analyses of the complex links between culture and welfare state. It deserves to be read both by advanced undergraduates and academics working in this area, and perhaps should also be read by policy-makers and politicians as a useful corrective to an overly economistic approach to welfare in the straitened years ahead. Rob Sykes, Social Policy and Administration The essays in this collection advance cultural analysis of the welfare state by describing the experiences of a large array of developed nations. . . Highly recommended. D. Stoesz, Choice Culture and Welfare State provides comparative studies on the interplay between cultural factors and welfare policies. Starting with an analysis of the historical and cultural foundations of Western European welfare states, reflected in the competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism and socialism, the book goes on to compare the Western European welfare model to those in North America, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Comprehensive and engaging, this volume examines not only the relationships between cultural change and welfare restructuring, taking empirical evidence from policy reforms in contemporary Europe, but also the popular legitimacy of welfare, focusing particularly on the underlying values, beliefs and attitudes of people in European countries. This book will be of great interest to sociologists and political scientists, as well as social policy experts interested in a cultural perspective on the welfare state.

Author : Francis G. Castles
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162828X
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State written by Francis G. Castles and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

Author : Peter Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642606520
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restructuring the Welfare State written by Peter Koslowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also in these countries where the crisis and financial problems of the welfare state are felt first. The need for restructuring the welfare state is a challenge of a supra-national, European and international scale. The book analyses the different welfare states in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden with outlooks to Eastern Europe and Japan and examines the proposals for reforming and restructuring the welfare state in Europe. The book offers a unique combination of empirical and philosophical-ethical analysis of the welfare state.

Author : Robert Urbé
Publisher : Lambertus-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3784124526
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Welfare State written by Robert Urbé and published by Lambertus-Verlag. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Europe has to be social, or there will be no Future! Welfare in itself is a concept that is dependent on cultural differences. These provide an explanation for the different historically-rooted welfare concepts throughout European countries. For our research we have consciously focused on European Union member countries, the number of countries involved in one way or another in the project is twenty. According to Esping-Andersen we differentiate three different types of Welfare models: the liberal "Beveridge systems, the conservative, corporatist "Bismarck systems and the social democratic or Scandinavian (Nordic) regimes. Our working group decided to opt for an "own class of countries belonging to a "Mediterranean Model. And we added also a group of "Central and Eastern European Systems. After having described these systems and their development, we have examined if, and to what extent the countries of a given regime are all following the same trends and developments. The question of a possible convergence of all these models in one future European social model was also investigated. At the end the most important questions remain: How can we overcome the austerity paradigm and move towards a cohesive society where everyone participates according to his means and where everybody gets according to his needs? How can we agree on a minimum socket of social rights in all European Countries

Author : Romano, Serena
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447312732
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The political and social construction of poverty written by Romano, Serena and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty is not a neutral phenomenon, nor are social inclusion programmes neutrally conceived, designed and implemented.Their ultimate nature is built upon ideas, values, actors, politics and economic constraints.This topical book is one of the first to examine the social and political construction of anti-poverty programmes in Central Eastern Europe and their transformation from communist rule to the current economic crisis. It covers the approach towards the ‘parasite’ poor through to Guaranteed Minimum Income Schemes and illustrates how the distinction between different categories of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor has evolved over the years as the result of changing paradigms, combined with the pressure exerted by domestic and international actors, the European Union and the World Bank among others. This text breaks new ground for social policy students and scholars interested in understanding how differently post-communist welfare states have represented, legitimised and dealt with poverty, need and social justice in accordance with divergent normative frameworks constructed at national level.

Author : Catherine Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113491234X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe written by Catherine Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since the 1940s has there been such comprehensive scope for uncertainty within and about Europe. New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe offers an appraisal of comparative social policy and applies it to current uncertainties concerning European communities and European-North American and East Asian relationships. Including contributions from Deakin, Klein, Leibfried, Mishra and Rose the work should provide essential reading for students, researchers, lecturers and policy makers in social policy, politics and sociology.