Welfare states in transition [Elektronisk resurs] East and West / Edited by Irwin Collier [et al.].

• 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.Holscher 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.

• 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. This volume represents the initial results of a trilateral research cooperation of the University of Pittsburgh (Centre for International Studies), the Charles University of Prague and the Free University Berlin. In addition to participants from the three partner institutions, other distinguished scholars from Europe and the United States were invited to the symposium held at the Free University Berlin from which the present volume results. The contributors overwhelmingly agree that it would be mistaken policy for the eastern economies in transition to simply copy the institutions of western welfare states. Instead one can learn much from the experience gathered over the past half-century in western welfare states. This is especially true with respect to the long-run sustainability of important institutions of social policy. Learning from this experience, social policymakers in the West have an obligation not to repeat their own past mistakes. This interdisciplinary critical examination of the social policy transitions in East and West will provide valuable assistance. 

Ämnesord

Welfare state.  (LCSH)

Mixed economy  -- Europe, Central -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Post-communism  -- Europe, Central -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Welfare state  -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Economics.  (eflch)

Europe  -- Social policy. (LCSH)

Europe, Central  -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Europe, Central  -- Social policy -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Welfare state

Målgrupp

Undergraduate.

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