Approaching the EU and Reaching the US? Rival Narratives on Transforming Welfare Regimes in East-Central Europe
Approaching the EU and Reaching the US? Rival Narratives on Transforming Welfare Regimes in East-Central Europe
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接近欧盟并到达美国？
DOI：
10.1080/713869590
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
J. Kovács
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作者：
J. Kovács
后共产主义福利制度经常被描绘成一个混合体，由共产主义社会政策的遗迹和对美国福利模式的新模仿组成。这种混合体的两个组成部分都被认为与“欧洲社会模式”不相容。与此同时，中东欧的大多数福利改革者试图避免落入以下陷阱：第一，保留旧社会政策体系的中央集权、低效率和伪平等主义特征;第二，沿着沿着介于资本主义和共产主义之间的民族保守主义/民粹主义的“第三条道路”寻求新形式的福利集体主义;第三，过于迅速或随意地废除旧的福利制度，从而引发民众的不满;第四，针对一个在过去20年中在西方世界已变得不可持续的最终状态。与此同时，该地区新兴的福利制度远非完全相同，改革者在西方也找不到稳定的制度安排可以复制。为了理解这一复杂的图景，本文通过对社会转型的三种主要叙述：“在黑暗中跳跃”、“原地踏步”和“得过且过”，探讨了过去十年该地区福利部门的“真实”情况。
Post-communist welfare regimes are frequently portrayed as a hybrid consisting of the relics of communist social policy and a neophyte imitation of the US model of welfare. Both components of that hybrid are regarded as incompatible with the 'European social model'. At the same time, most welfare reformers in East-Central Europe try to avoid falling into the trap of first, conserving the statist, inefficient and pseudo-egalitarian character of the old system of social policy; second, seeking new forms of welfare collectivism along the national-conservative/populist 'third roads' between capitalism and communism; third, triggering popular discontent by dismantling the old welfare regimes too rapidly, or in a haphazard way; and fourth, targeting an end-state which has become unsustainable in the Western world during the past two decades. Meanwhile, the emerging welfare regimes in the region are far from being identical and the reformers do not find stable institutional arrangements in the West to copy. In an effort to make sense of this complex picture, the paper examines what has 'really' happened in the welfare sectors in the region during the past decade by presenting three dominant narratives of the social transformation: 'leaping in the dark', 'marking time' and 'muddling through'.