Divide and Pacify : : Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies / / Pieter Vanhuysse.
Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence. It shows how reform...
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Vanhuysse, Pieter, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Divide and Pacify : Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies / Pieter Vanhuysse. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022] ©2006 1 online resource (190 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Unexpected Peacefulness of Transitions -- Chapter 3 Political Quiescence despite Conditions for Conflict -- Chapter 4 Preventing Protests: Divide and Pacify as Political Strategy -- Chapter 5 The Great Abnormal Pensioner Booms: Strategic Social Policies in Practice -- Chapter 6 Peaceful Pathways: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Welfare -- Chapter 7 Conclusions -- References -- Index of Names -- Subject Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence. It shows how reforming governments in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been able to prevent massive waves of strikes and protests by the strategic use of welfare state programs such as pensions and unemployment benefits. Divide and Pacify explains how social policies were used to prevent massive job losses with softening labor market policies, or to split up highly aggrieved groups of workers in precarious jobs by sending some of them onto unemployment benefits and many others onto early retirement and disability pensions. From a narrow economic viewpoint, these policies often appeared to be immensely costly or irresponsibly populist. Yet a more inclusive social-scientific perspective can shed new light on these seemingly irrational policies by pointing to deeper political motives and wider sociological consequences. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022) New democracies Europe, Central. Patronage, Political Europe, Central. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy. bisacsh Economic policy, Labor history, Patronage, Political economy, Protests, Sociology, Transition. Kornai, Janos, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Kornai, János, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998 9783110780550 https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155211447 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9786155211447 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9786155211447/original |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Unexpected Peacefulness of Transitions -- Chapter 3 Political Quiescence despite Conditions for Conflict -- Chapter 4 Preventing Protests: Divide and Pacify as Political Strategy -- Chapter 5 The Great Abnormal Pensioner Booms: Strategic Social Policies in Practice -- Chapter 6 Peaceful Pathways: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Welfare -- Chapter 7 Conclusions -- References -- Index of Names -- Subject Index |
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