
Welfare States in Transition
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 26. February 1999
Book
Hardback
XVI, 206 pages
978-0-333-73845-0 (ISBN)
Description
Social policy in East and West finds itself today in the middle of a fundamental transition. The former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the successor states to the former Soviet Union are attempting to create the institutions needed for a modern market economy and a modern democratic welfare state. At the same time, the mature welfare states of Europe are struggling to solve the contemporary financial crisis of their systems of social entitlements. Because of fundamental economic and demographic trends, these systems will become increasingly difficult to sustain over the coming decades. The contributors overwhelmingly agree that it would be mistaken policy to simply copy the institutions of Western welfare states to the Eastern economies in transition. Instead one can learn much from the experience gathered over the past half century in Western welfare states.
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Edition
1999 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XVI, 206 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-73845-0 (9780333738450)
DOI
10.1057/9780230371514
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I. Collier | H. Roggemann | O. Scholz
Welfare States in Transition
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Persons
MIRIAM BEBLO Lecturer in Social Policy, Freie Universität, Berlin
MARIE BOHATA Senior Economic Researcher, Charles University Prague
RONALD A. BRAND Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Legal Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
REINHARD HEINISCH Professor of Politics, University of Pittsburgh
JENS HÖLSCHER DAAD Senior Fellow and Co-ordinator of Economic Research, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham
EMIL J. KIRCHNER Professor in Government and Director of the Centre for European Studies, University of Essex.
KAI A. KONRAD Professor of Public Economics, Free University of Berlin
CATHRYN ROSS Research Assistant, Regulatory Policy Research Centre, Hertford College, University of Oxford
ELINOR SCARBROUGH Lecturer in Government, and Co-Director of the Essex Summer School in Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex
ONDREJ SCHNEIDER Adviser to the Minister of Industry and Trade, Czech Republic; Consultant to IMF and World Bank
MAIRON TEGZE Assistant Professor of Economics, Charles University, Prague
FRANTISEK TURNOVEC Director of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Charles University, Prague
MARIE VAVREJNOVA Senior Researcher, Economic Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
HANS WEISFELD Lecturer in Economics, Free University of Berlin
Content
List of Maps and Figures Biographical Notes Preface Introduction; I.Collier and H.Tomann PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES OF THE MARKET SOCIETY The Market Economy and its Ethical Infrastructure; M.Bohata Comment; E. Scarbrough Functional Change in Property Rights in the Welfare State - Lessons from the Federal Republic of Germany; H.Roggemann Comment; R.A. Brand The State of Corporatism in a Central Europe in Transition; R.Heinisch PART II: SOCIAL POLICY IN TRANSITION The Role of Social Policy During the Transformation in Central Europe; O.Scholz and H.Tomann Comment; E.Kirchner Political Economy of Social Welfare Reform: the Parliamentary Election of 1996 in the Czech Republic; F.Turnovec Comment; K.A.Konrad The Enlargement of the European Union and the Harmonisation of Public Pension Systems; O. Schneider Comment; C.Ross PART III: DYNAMICS OF INCOME INEQUALITY Social Cohesion and Transition Dynamics; J.Hölscher Income Distribution in Transition Economies and its Dynamics; M.Tegze Comment; H.Weisfeld The Share and Position of Minimum Income Categories of Households in the Czech Republic; M.Vavrejnova Comment; M.Beblo Index