Fighting poverty and reforming social security
Subtitle: what can post-Soviet states learn from the new democracies of Central Europe?
By: edited by Michael Cain, Nida Gelazis and Tomasz Inglot
Contributors: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. East European Studies
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, East European Studies
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781933549156
Subjects: Social policy; Social security; Public welfare
Other titles: What can post-Soviet states learn from the new democracies of Central Europe
Notes: "Conference proceeding from the meeting held in Washington DC, June 10, 2005."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From theory to practice: lessons of postcommunist social policy reforms in Central Europe; title: Breaking the path dependency of Soviet social security: can Central European experiences be exported towards the East?; title: Family and child support in a postcommunist society: origins of the mixed Hungarian welfare capitalism; title: The politics of decentralization and outcomes for social services in Poland; title: The politics of institutionalized volatility: lessons from East Central European welfare reforms; title: The new pension reforms: lessons for post-Soviet republics; title: Welfare states, constituencies and postcommunist transitions; title: Reforming in-kind privileges at the regional level in Russia: political decisions and their determinants; title: Popular reactions to social and health sector reforms in Russia's regions: reform versus retention in Samarskaia and Ul'ianovskaia oblasts; title: The transformations of postcommunist welfare systems: trends and policy lessons.