Welfare State Classification: The Development of Central Eastern European Welfare

Document Outline

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical background
  • 2.1 Definitions
  • 2.2 Two perspectives: path-dependence and policy diffusion
    • 2.2.1 Path-dependence perspective
    • 2.2.2 Policy diffusion perspective
  • 2.3 Esping-Andersen’s welfare state classification
  • 2.4 Bismarckian vs. Beveridgean welfare states
  • 2.6 Conclusion
• 3. Central Eastern European welfare states
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Communist Welfare States
  • 3.3 Welfare Reform Trajectories after Collapse Communism
  • 3.4 Classification CEE welfare states
  • 3.5 Conclusion
• 4. Methodology and Operationalisation
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Operationalisation
  • 4.3 Reliability and validity
• 5. Poland
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Pension system
  • 5.3 Family benefits
  • 5.4 Health-care system
  • 5.5 Labor market-policy
  • 5.6 Conclusions
• 6. Slovakia
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Pension system
  • 6.3 Family benefits
  • 6.4 Health-care system
  • 6.5 Labour market-policy
  • 6.6 Conclusions
• 7. Conclusions
  • 7.1 Path-dependence or policy diffusion?
  • 7.2 Liberal, conservative, social democratic or hybrid welfare states?
  • 7.3 One CEE welfare type in the future?
  • 7.4 Esping-Adersen’s (in)stable welfare states