Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
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Author_Robert R. Kaufman
Author_Stephan Haggard
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Central government
Civil service
Communism
Costa Rica
Czechoslovakia
Decentralization
Democracy
Democratization
Developed country
Eastern Europe
Economic growth
Economic planning
Economic policy
Economics
Education reform
Employment
Entitlement
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Financial crisis
Fiscal policy
Funding
Globalization
Government
Government spending
Health insurance
Health system
Income
Industrialisation
Infant mortality
Inflation
Insurance
Labour movement
Latin America
Legislation
Legislature
Liberalization
Malaysia
Middle class
Of Education
Payroll tax
Pension
Pension fund
Political economy
Political party
Politician
Politics
Poverty reduction
Private sector
Privatization
Provision (contracting)
Public sector
Recession
Regime
Retirement age
Social democracy
Social insurance
Social policy
Social protection
Social safety net
Subsidy
Tax
Trade union
Unemployment
Unemployment benefits
Welfare
Welfare reform
Welfare state
Workforce
World Bank
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- ISBN 9780691135960
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist entitlements while conservative dictatorships in East Asia sharply limited social security but invested in education. In Latin America, where welfare systems were instituted earlier, unequal social-security systems favored formal sector workers and the middle class. Haggard and Kaufman compare the different welfare paths of the countries in these regions following democratization and the move toward more open economies. Although these transformations generated pressure to reform existing welfare systems, economic performance and welfare legacies exerted a more profound influence.
The authors show how exclusionary welfare systems and economic crisis in Latin America created incentives to adopt liberal social-policy reforms, while social entitlements from the communist era limited the scope of liberal reforms in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. In East Asia, high growth and permissive fiscal conditions provided opportunities to broaden social entitlements in the new democracies. This book highlights the importance of placing the contemporary effects of democratization and globalization into a broader historical context.
Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Robert R. Kaufman is professor of political science at Rutgers University.
