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Contemporary Welfare Regimes in Baltic States: Adapting Post-Communist Conditions to Post-Modern Challenges
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Abstract "This article revises the conventional approach to welfare state development in the post-communist world,
according to which the main challenge for the Eastern European states is to catch up with Western European
welfare regimes. The article argues that adjustment to the new social risks and volat... mehr
"This article revises the conventional approach to welfare state development in the post-communist world,
according to which the main challenge for the Eastern European states is to catch up with Western European
welfare regimes. The article argues that adjustment to the new social risks and volatile markets is more
important today than the catching-up scenario. Based on social and labour market statistics for Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania, the article analyses how the Baltic States are coping with this adjustment challenge.
Adaptation to the post-modern conditions can be regarded as successful if the stability of welfare spending
is accompanied by the expanding and flexible employment and by the stable or decreasing level of poverty.
The findings suggest that the opportunities to increase the flexibility and equality of the labour market
provided by the breakdown of the communist regime were not used. Instead, the Baltic welfare states
continue to focus on protecting against the old social risks by combining neoliberal and post-communist
principles. Poor performance in meeting new social risks poses a greater challenge for the post-communist
welfare states than their lag in terms of gross welfare expenditure." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wohlfahrtsstaat; Baltikum; Familienpolitik; postkommunistische Gesellschaft; postsozialistisches Land; Nachhaltigkeit; Arbeitsmarkt; Estland; Lettland; Litauen; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; Sozialausgaben; Armutsbekämpfung
Klassifikation
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialpolitik
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 31-44
Zeitschriftentitel
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2 (2010) 2
ISSN
1736-8758
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
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