This paper reviews some theoretical and empirical literature written on welfare state
development in post-communist Eastern Europe in the light of the theories and approaches …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

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This chapter discusses the concept of the second demographic transition (SDT) and its
relevance for explaining the ongoing changes in family and fertility patterns across Europe. It …

Globalization, argue the contributors to this book, has remarkably accelerated social and
economic change in modern societies. One such change is manifested in the world of work …

This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the
end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the …

In this article we examine the occurrence of social capital in 21 different countries. Our study
starts from the premise that the countries under scrutiny represent different kinds of welfare …

» Fertilität in Mittel-und Osteuropa nach 1989: Kollaps und graduelle Erholung «. This
contribution looks at the recent transformations of reproductive and family behaviour in …

The paper reviews recent socio-economic changes in the 10 new EU member states of
Central and Eastern Europe and the earlier and latest debates on the emergence of the post …

This book offers a rigorous empirical and theoretical analysis of an important dimension of
European integration-the implementation of EU legislation and its effect in the wake of the …