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Social Change and Welfare State Developments in CEE and Russia
Cerami, Alfio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper provides a brief description of the main systemic problems (strukturprobleme) of post-communist capitalism(s), as well as exploring the main changes occurring in the social structure and the subsequent new social risks and welfare state responses emerging. It shows that post communist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619376
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Poverty and Social Structure in Russia : An Analysis of the First Decade of Transition
Cerami, Alfio - 2019
This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade … of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3 … reducing poverty among people in need. This study has also highlighted how the Russian society is now slowly acquiring those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746435
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Welfare State Developments in the Russian Federation : Oil-Led Social Policy and 'The Russian Miracle'
Cerami, Alfio - 2019
This article investigates the main welfare state developments of the Russian Federation that have occurred since the fall of communism. It argues that the contemporary welfare expansion strictly depends on high oil and gas prices, and that this oil-led social policy makes the future of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746412
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Central Europe in transition: emerging models of welfare and social assistance
Cerami, Alfio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
prevent citizens to fall into extreme poverty. As it will be argued, social assistance schemes did not only play a crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616639
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New Social Policy Ideas in the Making: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe
Cerami, Alfio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Central and Eastern European countries have experienced a rapid transformation of their economic, political and welfare regime(s). From a state-paternalist welfare state, post-communist countries are now moving towards something new. A shift in the main social policy paradigm is, in fact, taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622051
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Europeanization, Enlargement and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
Cerami, Alfio - 2019
This paper aims at exploring the relationship between Europeanization, Enlargement and social policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe. In particular, it examines the importance of ideas, interests and institutions in the making of contemporary public and social policies, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706067
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The Impact of Social Transfers in Central and Eastern Europe
Cerami, Alfio - 2019
overview of the development of social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe; and (b) to quantify the change of poverty rates … for leaving poverty, social transfers significantly improve the economic conditions of families in need. Without the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706066
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Germany after the Unification : The Exclusive Society?
Cerami, Alfio - 2019
On the basis of an exhaustive assessment of the Social Inequality III dataset provided by the International Social Survey programme, this study aims to find a response to the following questions: 1) did the inclusion of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) into the Federal Republic of Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746437
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Why Should Central and Eastern European Societies Still Be Considered as Democracies at Risk : An Analysis of Labour Structure and Preferences for One-Party System
Cerami, Alfio - 2019
This article asks whether Central and Eastern European societies should be seen as fully consolidated democracies or whether they should still be considered as democracies at risk. Using the concept of embedded democracy developed by Wolfgang Merkel and the members of the project on Defective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746438
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Happiness and Socio-Economic Transformations in the Russian Federation
Cerami, Alfio - 2019
ones more vulnerable to poverty, income inequality and social exclusion, but are also the ones more likely to live an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204051