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- Aidukaite, Jolanta
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Old welfare state theories and new welfare regimes in Eastern Europe : Challenges and implications
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Ingår i: Communist and post-communist studies. - : University of California Press. - 0967-067X .- 1873-6920. ; 42:1, s. 23-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 that have been developed to study affluent capitalist democracies. The aim of this discussion is to critically reassess the old welfare state theories, definitions and approaches and their implications regarding the study of post-communist Eastern Europe. The paper ends with the conclusion that the exclusion of 'communist' countries for more than twenty years from welfare state theorising has created an empirical and theoretical gap. This creates fresh challenges for welfare state research and calls for a new paradigm. It is evident that the not so well explored Eastern European region with regards to social policy research suggests that it is necessary not only to test already existing welfare state theories, definitions, typologies and approaches on these countries, but also to advance them.
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- Aidukaite, Jolanta
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Reforming Family Policy in the Baltic States : The Views of the Elites
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Ingår i: Communist and post-communist studies. - : University of California Press. - 0967-067X .- 1873-6920. ; 39:1, s. 1-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to explore the various views of the social policy elites in the Baltic States concerning family policy and, in particular, family benefits as one of the possible explanations for the observed policy differences. This study is based on semi-structured expert interviews from the three Baltic countries conducted in 2002. The qualitative analyses indicate that the Baltic States differ significantly with regard to the reasons behind their family policies. Lithuanian decision-makers seek to reduce poverty among families with children and enhance parents’ responsibility for bringing up their children. Latvian policy-makers act so as to increase the birth rate and create equal opportunities for children from all families. Policies that seek to create equal opportunities for all children and the desire to enhance gender equality was more visible in the case of Estonia in comparison with the other two countries. This study thus indicate how intimately the attitudes of top-level bureaucrats, policy-makers and researchers shape social policy.
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- Aidukaite, Jolanta
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The Formation of Social Insurance Institutions of the Baltic States in the Post-Socialist Era
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Ingår i: Journal of European Social Policy. - : SAGE Publications. - 0958-9287 .- 1461-7269. ; 16:3, s. 259-270
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper provides an overview of the differences that have emerged in the social insurance systems of the three Baltic countries since they regained their independence. It assesses how closely the institutional structures of social insurance in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania approximate to various ideal types of social security institutions to be found in the research literature. The findings indicate that, in general terms, the social security system of Estonia and Latvia can be labelled as a mix of the basic security and corporatist model, even if there are also some weak elements of the targeted model. In contrast, it appears that the institutional changes developing in the social security system of Lithuania have led to a combination of the basic security and targeted models of welfare. Even if they started with identical social security institutions inherited from the Soviet period, there is not only similarity, but also diversity in how these countries are now addressing problems in the social policy field.
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- Aidukaite, Jolanta
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The Welfare System of Lithuania
- 2009
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Ingår i: The handbook of European welfare systems. - London : Routledge. - 9780415482752 ; , s. 294-310
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