ISBN:
9781447312710
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The political and social construction of poverty : Central and Eastern European countries in transition
DDC:
305.5/509715
Keywords:
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Abstract:
This topical book is one of the first to examine the social and political construction of anti-poverty programmes in Central Eastern Europe and their transformation from the communist rule to the current economic crisis. It covers the approach towards the 'parasite' poor through to Guaranteed Minimum Income Schemes and illustrates how the distinction between different categories of 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor has evolved over the years as the result of changing paradigms
Description / Table of Contents:
THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF POVERTY; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Outline of the book; Part One: The construction of poverty before 1989; 1. Social policy in Central Eastern Europe; Social policy, communism and post-communism; A post-communist welfare regime?; Central Eastern European welfare states between reconstruction and adaptation; The social and political construction of poverty as a theoretical problem; The construction of boundaries; The deserving poor; 2. The lifespan of a model: the construction of poverty before 1989
Description / Table of Contents:
The pillars of the soviet welfare state'More than a state secret': the concept of poverty under communism; Normative perspectives on poverty and unemployment; The construction of poverty in communist countries before 1989; The poor under communism; 3. Poverty in transition; The socialist welfare state without socialism; The taboo revealed: old and new dimensions of poverty; A new construction of poverty?; Social inclusion and social compensation; Part Two: Poverty and welfare reforms after the transition; 4. East meets West: CEE countries, monetary institutions and the European Social Model
Description / Table of Contents:
From the soviet bloc to the European UnionInternal dynamics of change; Central Eastern social standards vs the European social model; Between growth and cohesion? The impact of international actors; 5. The new poor in the new Europe: the end of a stigma?; Poor relief reconfigured: from the social safety net to minimum income schemes; Hungary; Poland; The Czech Republic; Slovakia; Estonia; Slovenia; The social construction of EU differences: a problem of measurement?; New strategies, new functions: the new anti-poverty platform; 6. The construction of poverty in times of austerity
Description / Table of Contents:
Social policy and the economic crisis: a new wave of welfare retrenchment?The global crisis and its impact on poverty profiles in CEE countries; Measuring the effect of the crisis; The crisis in CEE countries: political responses; Poverty and the crisis between retrenchment and expansion trajectories; Conclusions; From communist rule to the global financial crisis; Functional adaptation: regulating what?; Ideas, discourses and the normative framework: the deserving poor yesterday and today; Institutional reconfiguration: the discretionary construction of poverty?
Description / Table of Contents:
Redistributive dynamics: who gets what?Deserving and undeserving groups in Central Eastern Europe today: the new poor; Roma families and poverty: invisible boundaries, invisible statistics and the silent variable; Past and new representations of poverty; References; Index
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