Development, Democracy, and Welfare States - Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe

Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe



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English | ISBN: 0691135967 | 2008 | 496 pages | PDF | 7 MB

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 cratization 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.