Post-Communist Welfare Pathways : Theorizing Social Policy Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe

Cerami, Alfio (EDT); Vanhuysse, Pieter (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0230230261 / ISBN 13: 9780230230262

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Codice articolo 6371003-n

Riassunto:

This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of explanatory factors such as micro-causal mechanisms, power politics, path departure, and elite strategies.

Informazioni sull'autore: ALFIO CERAMI is Research Associate at the Centre for European Studies of Sciences Po, Paris, France PIETER VANHUYSSE is Lecturer at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Research Affiliate at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna, Austria JOLANTA AIDUKAITE is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Lithuania VEERLE DE MAESSCHALCK is Resarch Assistant at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy of the University of Antwerp, The Netherlands STEPHAN HAGGARD is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA TOMASZ INGLOT is Professor of Political Science and Douglas R. Moore Faculty Research Lecturer at Minnesota State University, USA ROBERT R. KAUFMAN is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, USA KRISTINE KERN is Assistant Professor at Wageningen University, The Netherlands CLAUS OFFE was (until his retirement in 2005) Professor of Political Science at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany MIROSLAVA RÁKOCZYOVÁ is Researcher at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs, Prague CRISTINA RAT is Lecturer at the Sociology Department of the 'Babe?-Bolyai' University and Research Fellow at the Research Centre on Interethnic Relation (CCRIT), Cluj-Napoca, Romania TOMÁ SIROVÁTKA is Professor of Social Policy at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk Universityin Brno, Czech Repulic SIMONA MARIA STANESCU is a PhD. student in Sociology, Bucharest University and researcher at Quality of Life Research Institute, Romanian Academy, Romania DOROTTYA SZIKRA is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Eötvös University, Budapest HILDEGARD THEOBALD is Professor of Organisational Gerontology at Centre for Research on Ageing and Society, Vechta University, Germany BÈLA TOMKA is Associate Professor of Modern Social and Economic History at the Department of History, University of Szeged, Hungary NATASCHA VAN MECHELEN is Senior Researcher at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy in Antwerp, Belgium

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Titolo: Post-Communist Welfare Pathways : Theorizing...
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
Legatura: Rilegato
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