Development, Democracy, and Welfare States (eBook)

Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe

Stephan Haggard, Robert R. Kaufman (Autoren)

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2020
496 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21415-3 (ISBN)

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This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist entitlements while conservative dictatorships in East Asia sharply limited social security but invested in education. In Latin America, where welfare systems were instituted earlier, unequal social-security systems favored formal sector workers and the middle class. Haggard and Kaufman compare the different welfare paths of the countries in these regions following democratization and the move toward more open economies. Although these transformations generated pressure to reform existing welfare systems, economic performance and welfare legacies exerted a more profound influence. The authors show how exclusionary welfare systems and economic crisis in Latin America created incentives to adopt liberal social-policy reforms, while social entitlements from the communist era limited the scope of liberal reforms in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. In East Asia, high growth and permissive fiscal conditions provided opportunities to broaden social entitlements in the new democracies. This book highlights the importance of placing the contemporary effects of democratization and globalization into a broader historical context.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 34 line illus. 54 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Allende, Salvador • Aquino, Corazon • Argentina • authoritarianism • Bautista, Victoria A. • Brazil • Brooks, Sarah • Capitalism • Castiglioni, Rossana • central government • civil service • communism • Corporatism • Costa Rica • cross-class coalition • czechoslovakia • Debt Crisis • decentralization • Democracy • Democratization • developed country • Eastern Europe • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • economic openness • Economic planning • Economic Policy • Economics • economy • Education Policy • education reform • Election • Elite • Employment • entitlement • Estrada, Joseph • Financial Crisis • Fiscal Policy • Foreign Direct Investment • Fujimori, Alberto • Funding • Gierek, Edward • Globalization • Government • government spending • health insurance • Health system • Household • Hwang, Gyu-Jin • income • industrialisation • Infant Mortality • Inflation • Informal Sector • Institution • insurance • Insurgency • Japan • Kaser, Michael • Labor • Labour movement • Latin America • Lee Kuan Yew • Legislation • Legislature • Liberalization • Macroeconomics • Major party • Malaysia • Marcos, Ferdinand • Mesa-Lago, Carmelo • middle class • NGOs • of education • Orenstein, Mitchell A. • Party System • path dependence • Payment • Payroll tax • Pension • Pensioner • pension fund • Peronists • Political Economy • Political Party • political realignments • Politician • Politics • poverty reduction • Primary Healthcare • private sector • Privatization • Provision (contracting) • Public Expenditure • Public Finance • Public sector • Radicalism (historical) • Ramos, Fidel • Recession • Regime • Retirement age • Roberts, Kenneth • secondary education • Social Democracy • Social Insurance • Social Policy • Social protection • social safety net • Social Security System (Philippines) • Soviet Union • state-owned enterprise • Subsidy • Taiwan • Tax • Thailand • Trade Union • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • Union Movement • universal health care • urbanization • Vanhuysse, Pieter • wage • welfare • Welfare reform • Welfare State • Wong, Joseph • Workforce • Working Class • World Bank
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21415-8 / 0691214158
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21415-3 / 9780691214153