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  title info:
    title: Inequality after the transition
    sub title: political parties, party systems, and social policy in southern and postcommunist Europe
  name:
    name part: Karakoç, Ekrem
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edtition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 330 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: After the Transition is an all-encompassing examination of the origins, increase, and persistence of inequality in new democracies. It challenges the conventional thinking found in much of the democratization-inequality literature, and offers a new theory. It speaks simultaneously to literature of democratization, party systems, social policy, and inequality to explain why democracies are not able to fulfill their promise to the disadvantaged and why theycannot achieve income equality.It investigates social policy programs such as pensions, unemployment benefits, and other social transfers in Poland and the Czech Republic in Post-Communist Europe, and Turkey and Spain in Southern Europe. The volume traces the origins and development of social policy, from the formation of nation-states to the present, and considers how different political regimes, whether totalitarian; post-totalitarian; or authoritarian, designed welfare policies to prioritize civil servants and theworking classes in formal sectors at the expense of the majority poor. It then demonstrates how these legacies perpetuate and widen disparities in access to welfare policies, and thus income inequality in countries where low mobilization by the poor and unstable party systems prevail. This study employsinterviews with Polish, Czech, Turkish, and Spanish union leaders; bureaucrats; and business people while also conducting an original survey in Turkey to dissect the linkage between organized groups and parties. Employing a multi-method approach, two paired case studies on these countries also demystify why and how new populist parties have successfully appealed to voters and affected the trajectory of social policy, party systems and inequality.
  table of contents: Introduction -- A theory of redistribution in new democracies -- Cross-national test of the theory -- Divergent paths of inequality in Poland and the Czech Republic -- Divergent path of inequality in Turkey and Spain -- Conclusion.
  note: Ekrem Karakoç.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Equality
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: Post-communism
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Equality
  subject:
    topic: Post-communism
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
  classification: HN373.5 .K37 2018
  classification: 361.6/1/094
  classification: 361.6/1094
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
  identifier: 0198826923
  identifier: 9780198826927
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180301
    record change date: 20190122134011.0
    record identifier: in00004048062
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng