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 …

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to
produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition …

The major trends in family structures and their shifts across the industrialized world over the
past decades are well known: fertility rates have declined below the level sufficient for the …

This article documents and compares the social policies that the governments in Central and
Eastern Europe (CEE) implemented to combat the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic by …

The welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have undergone massive changes
since the beginning of the 1990s. This paper reviews the literature on welfare state …

We are told that'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by'individual lifestyles'.
Drawing on research from public health, social policy, epidemiology, geography and …

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of
fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and …

" Human need is a central but contested concept in social policy and the social sciences.
This book provides an accessible overview of the subject using concepts and debates from …

An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically
explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of …

The chapter addresses the complex interplay between the new roles of women and men
and the diversity of family life courses (focusing on heterosexual individuals) in advanced …