Linda J Cook

Postcommunist Welfare States

Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cook explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780801479007
• ISBN-10: 0801479002
• Artikelnr.: 38529525

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Welfare States and
Postcommunist Transitions
1. Old Welfare State Structures and Reform Strategies
2. Non-negotiated Liberalization: Decentralizing
Russia's Welfare State and Moving It Off-Budget
3. Contested Liberalization: Russia's Politics of
Polarization and Informalization
4. Welfare Reform in Putin's Russia: Negotiating Liberalization within
the Elite
5. Comparing Postcommunist Welfare Politics in Poland,
Hungary, Kazakhstan, and Belarus
Conclusion: Negotiating Welfare in Democratic and
Authoritarian Transitions