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9%OFFLinda J. Cook - Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe - 9780801479007 - V9780801479007
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Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

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Description for Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 45, 37 tables, 5 charts, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1DVUA; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.

In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Most of these countries, she shows, tried to institute reforms based on a liberal paradigm of reduced entitlements and subsidies, means-testing, and privatization. But these proposals provoked opposition from pro-welfare interests, and the politics of negotiating change varied ... Read more

Cook finds that the impact of economic pressures on welfare was strongly mediated by domestic political factors, including the level of democratization and balance of pro- and anti-reform political forces. Postcommunist welfare politics throughout Russia and Eastern Europe, she shows, are marked by the large role played by bureaucratic welfare stakeholders who were left over from the communist period and, in weak states, by the development of informal processes in social sectors.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
451g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801479007
SKU
V9780801479007
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About Linda J. Cook
Linda J. Cook is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin and Labor and Liberalization: Trade Unions in the New Russia.

Reviews for Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
"Linda J. Cook is the leading expert on the subject of welfare state policies and politics in Russia and in the postcommunist sphere more generally. In Postcommunist Welfare States, she argues that political, rather than economic or social, factors determine the effectiveness of policy reforms. Her detailed discussion of a wide range of social policies is a tremendous asset and ... Read more

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