Poverty and the Traps of Postcommunist Welfare Reforms in Hungary: The New Challenges of EU-Accession

Szalai, Júlia

doi:10.3935/rsp.v13i3.644

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“…Research on welfare in the region has included studies of the politics of social policy (Cook, 2007;Cox, 2007;Cox and Gallai, 2012;Offe, 1993;Orenstein, 2008;Potůček, 2008), changing pensions policies (Fultz, 2002;Orenstein, 2008;Szalai, 2004), the influence of international organisations on welfare policies in the region (Deacon and Hulse 1997;Orenstein and Haas 2005), welfare assistance (Braithwaite et al, 2000;Nelson, 2010;Ringold and Kasek, 2007), and empirical studies of the INTERSECTIONS. EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS, 4 (1): 24-44. consequences of changing welfare provision for the poverty, income inequality and security of different social groups (Dudwick et al, 2005;EBRD, 2011;Emigh and Szelényi, 2001;Smith et al, 2008;Swain, 2011;Szalai, 2006). Further studies have focused on the forces shaping the emergence of post-socialist welfare provision in terms of long-term historical legacies (Cerami and Vanhuysee, 2009;Inglot, 2008) and the immediate political needs of post-socialist ruling political elites in managing the high costs of the economic transition, reducing welfare spending and dividing and pacifying competing social groups (Vanhuysse, 2006;Bohle and Greskovits, 2012).…”

Section: The Welfare Regime Debate and Central And Eastern Europementioning

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Bifurcation, Stratification and Informality in Post-Socialist Welfare Regimes

Cox¹

2018

Intersections

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The essay assesses the work of Júlia Szalai on the concept of the bifurcated welfare state as a contribution to the debate on welfare regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. It locates her work in the context of the debate around Esping-Andersen’s ideal types of welfare state regimes and sees the bifurcated welfare state as offering a means of understanding the key features of hybrid welfare states in East Central Europe. The essay then examines evidence in support of the concept and explores possible ways in which the idea may contribute to the research agenda on welfare regimes.

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“…However, the most detailed expression of her views is included in her book in Hungarian(Szalai, 2007). See also:Szalai (1997) andSzalai (2006).…”

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Bifurcation, Stratification and Informality in Post-Socialist Welfare Regimes

Cox¹

2018

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“…Deacon concluded that in the late 1990s there was ‘a tension between the aspiration towards a European‐style social market economy (or conservative corporatism) and a budget‐induced and IMF–World Bank‐backed residualism’ but also that in the former Soviet Union ‘the combination of post‐Communist conservatism and economic difficulties is leading to welfare collapse and neglect’ (Deacon 2000: 156). Szalai (2006) argued that corporatism and liberalism are strongly interwoven in the welfare regime of today's Hungary. Generally, the idea of liberal or neo‐liberal types of reforms became a widely used label to describe these changes.…”

Section: Post‐communist Social Policies In Central Europementioning

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Croatian Social Policy: The Legacies of War, State‐building and Late Europeanization

Stubbs

Zrinščak

2009

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This article outlines the differences and commonalities between social policy developments in Croatia and those in Central Europe. In Croatia, issues such as national identities and the redefinition of citizenship, war, state-building and crisis management have produced a complex mix of statist centralization and parallelism of welfare actors at the central and local level. While subject both to neo-liberal pressures to privatize provision, and later to European Union influences, both of these came later, and were more mediated, than in Central Europe. Croatia forms a bridge to studying the uneven welfare arrangements of other countries in South-East Europe, marked as they are by complex governance arrangements and the presence of social development and postwar reconstruction discourses.

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“…In terms of Central and Eastern Europe, Deacon (1992) described Poland as a "post-communist conservative corporatist" welfare state, Czechoslovakia as a "social democratic" model, while Hungary was seen as a "liberal welfare regime" (see also Ferge, 2001). For Aidukaite (2006Aidukaite ( , 2010, Cerami (2006) and Żukowski (2009), the ten new Eastern EU member states can be described in terms of a distinct post-communist welfare regime type, while for Szalai (2005), Gans-Morse and Orenstein (2006) and Fuchs and Offe (2009), a mixture of corporatism and liberalism or of corporatism and social democracy (Fenger, 2007) is the main characteristic of these countries. Other more diversified categorisations also exist.…”

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