Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

by Linda J. Cook

Book Overview

In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Most of these countries, she shows, tried to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801445264
• ISBN13: 9780801445262
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher