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The political and social construction of poverty : Central and Eastern European countries in transition /
This study sheds new light on the issue of why poverty is never a 'neutral' phenomenon, but rather is always the result of more or less explicit social and political constructions. It illustrates how poverty and anti-poverty policies have been conceived, designed and implemented in Central...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
Policy Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF POVERTY; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Outline of the book; Part One: The construction of poverty before 1989; 1. Social policy in Central Eastern Europe; Social policy, communism and post-communism; A post-communist welfare regime?; Central Eastern European welfare states between reconstruction and adaptation; The social and political construction of poverty as a theoretical problem; The construction of boundaries; The deserving poor; 2. The lifespan of a model: the construction of poverty before 1989
- The pillars of the soviet welfare state'More than a state secret': the concept of poverty under communism; Normative perspectives on poverty and unemployment; The construction of poverty in communist countries before 1989; The poor under communism; 3. Poverty in transition; The socialist welfare state without socialism; The taboo revealed: old and new dimensions of poverty; A new construction of poverty?; Social inclusion and social compensation; Part Two: Poverty and welfare reforms after the transition; 4. East meets West: CEE countries, monetary institutions and the European Social Model
- From the soviet bloc to the European UnionInternal dynamics of change; Central Eastern social standards vs the European social model; Between growth and cohesion? The impact of international actors; 5. The new poor in the new Europe: the end of a stigma?; Poor relief reconfigured: from the social safety net to minimum income schemes; Hungary; Poland; The Czech Republic; Slovakia; Estonia; Slovenia; The social construction of EU differences: a problem of measurement?; New strategies, new functions: the new anti-poverty platform; 6. The construction of poverty in times of austerity
- Social policy and the economic crisis: a new wave of welfare retrenchment?The global crisis and its impact on poverty profiles in CEE countries; Measuring the effect of the crisis; The crisis in CEE countries: political responses; Poverty and the crisis between retrenchment and expansion trajectories; Conclusions; From communist rule to the global financial crisis; Functional adaptation: regulating what?; Ideas, discourses and the normative framework: the deserving poor yesterday and today; Institutional reconfiguration: the discretionary construction of poverty?
- Redistributive dynamics: who gets what?Deserving and undeserving groups in Central Eastern Europe today: the new poor; Roma families and poverty: invisible boundaries, invisible statistics and the silent variable; Past and new representations of poverty; References; Index