Tomasz Inglot is currently Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Relations Program at Minnesota State University. His articles appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Perspectives on Political Science, and Polityka Spöeczna (Warsaw) and he co-edited the collected conference papers of the 2005 meeting on East European social policy at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, IREX travel grants, and an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in East European Studies.
Introduction; 1. The welfare state in East Central Europe: a conceptual and theoretical reconsideration; 2. Institutional legacies: state-building
regime change
and the development of national welfare states in Czechoslovakia
Poland
and Hungary
1919-1989; 3. Policy legacies of state socialism: cycles of social policy expansion and retrenchment in Czechoslovakia
Poland
and Hungary
1945-1989; 4. Historical legacies
welfare state institutions and the politics of social policy reforms in postcommunist East Central Europe; Conclusion.
