Postcommunist welfare states : reform politics in Russia and Eastern Europe /
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : welfare states and postcommunist transitions
- Old welfare state structures and reform strategies
- Non-negotiated liberalization : decentralizing Russia's welfare state and moving it off-budget
- Contested liberalization : Russia's politics of polarization and informalization
- Welfare reform in Putin's Russia : negotiating liberalization within the elite
- Comparing postcommunist welfare politics in Poland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, and Belarus
- Conclusion : negotiating welfare in democratic and authoritarian transitions.