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Inequality After the Transition - Political Parties, Party Systems, and Social Policy in Southern and Postcommunist Europe (Hardcover)
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Inequality After the Transition - Political Parties, Party Systems, and Social Policy in Southern and Postcommunist Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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After the Transition is an all-encompassing examination of the
origins, increase, and persistence of inequality in new
democracies. It challenges the conventional thinking found in much
of the democratization-inequality literature, and offers a new
theory. It speaks simultaneously to literature of democratization,
party systems, social policy, and inequality to explain why
democracies are not able to fulfill their promise to the
disadvantaged and why they cannot achieve income equality. It
investigates social policy programs such as pensions, unemployment
benefits, and other social transfers in Poland and the Czech
Republic in Post-Communist Europe, and Turkey and Spain in Southern
Europe. The volume traces the origins and development of social
policy, from the formation of nation-states to the present, and
considers how different political regimes, whether totalitarian;
post-totalitarian; or authoritarian, designed welfare policies to
prioritize civil servants and the working classes in formal sectors
at the expense of the majority poor. It then demonstrates how these
legacies perpetuate and widen disparities in access to welfare
policies, and thus income inequality in countries where low
mobilization by the poor and unstable party systems prevail. This
study employs interviews with Polish, Czech, Turkish, and Spanish
union leaders; bureaucrats; and business people while also
conducting an original survey in Turkey to dissect the linkage
between organized groups and parties. Employing a multi-method
approach, two paired case studies on these countries also demystify
why and how new populist parties have successfully appealed to
voters and affected the trajectory of social policy, party systems
and inequality. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers,
teachers, and students of political science that deals with
contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the
series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and
strong methodological rigour. The series is published in
association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by
Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre
de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for
the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow,
John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University
of Houston.
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