Postcommunist welfare states

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 80-94

  Orenstein, Mitchell A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (24)

1. Berteismann Stiftung, Berteismann Transformation Index 2008: Political Management in International Comparison (Gütersoh: Berteismann Stiftung, 2008), 11.
2. Linda J. Cook, Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).
3. Mitchell A. Orenstein, "How Politics and Institutions Affect Pension Reform in Three Postcommunist Countries," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2310, March 2000.
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5. Martin Rein, Barry L. Friedman, and Andreas Wörgötter, eds., Enterprise and Social Benefits after Communism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
6. This led economist János Kornai to deem the communist welfare states "premature"; Kornai, "The Reform of the Welfare State and Public Opinion," American Economic Review 87 (May 1997): 339-43.
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10. Michael J.G. Cain and Aleksander Surdej, "Transitional Politics or Public Choice? Evaluating Stalled Pension Reforms in Poland," in Linda J. Cook, Mitchell A. Orenstein, and Marilyn Rueschemeyer, eds., Left Parties and Social Policy in Postcommunist Europe (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1999).
11. Tito Boeri, Structural Change, Welfare Systems, and Labour Reallocation: Lessons from the Transition of Formerly Planned Economies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 132.
12. Mitchell A. Orenstein, Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
13. Beate Sissenich, Building States without Society: European Union Enlargement and the Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007).
14. The figure should be interpreted carefully. IMF data on social spending may not be highly accurate or standardized across countries, but it is the only source of socialspending data across many countries. The figure includes data not for all postcommunist countries, but only for the subset that is included in the IMF data set.
15. Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
16. IMF Government Finance Statistics, "Public Social Protection and Health Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP." Available at www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/ifpses.home.
17. Tomasz Inglot, Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919-2004 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008);
18. see also Alfio Cerami, Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Emergence of a New European Welfare Regime (Münster: LIT, 2006).
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20. Takumi Horibayashi, "Characteristics of the Central European Welfare System," Journal of Social Science (Japan) 55, no. 1 (2003): 169-88.
21. Mitchell A. Orenstein, "Out-Liberalizing the EU: Pension Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe," Journal of European Public Policy 15 (September 2008).
22. Julia Szalai, "Poverty and the Traps of Postcommunist Welfare Reforms in Hungary: A Fourth World of Welfare Capitalism on the Rise?" Paper presented at the annual conference of RC19, International Sociological Association, Chicago, September 2005.
23. Mitchell A. Orenstein, "How Politics and Institutions Affect Pension Reform in Three Postcommunist Countries."
24. André Sapir, "Globalization and the Reform of European Social Models," Journal of Common Market Studies 44 (June 2006): 369-90.