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Small Transformations
János Mátyás Kovács
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The Politics of Welfare Reform - East and West
出版LIT Verlag Münster, 2003
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / Economics / MacroeconomicsBusiness & Economics / Economics / GeneralHistory / Europe / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfarePolitical Science / Political EconomyPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
ISBN382586443X9783825864439
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JGMrdKmG33EC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋East-Central Europe is about to bring its welfare reforms to the European Union. Nevertheless, in the course of the Accession, one could hardly fix the European standards of social policy or examine to what degree the newcomers may have approached them. Evidently, there has always been a variety of welfare regimes in the EU. Moreover, today's experts in post-communist countries do not find stable policies and institutional arrangements in the West but rather another reform process, the "domestication" of the classical welfare states. True, the general trends are not dissimilar: partial retrenchment, decentralization, marketisation and privatisation of public welfare services, as well as an upsurge of the voluntary sector, are the main characteristic features of regulating welfare on both sides of the former Iron Curtain. These issues are addressed by the contributors of this volume, leading representatives of their professions, in an unprecedented way. In avoiding the convenient cliche