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Before turning to details, the political essence of the new trends should be briefly summarised. By now the collapse of the ‘socialist systems’ is a fact, even though there are considerable differences between the countries.
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Ferge, Z. (1991). Recent Trends in Social Policy in Hungary. In: Adam, J. (eds) Economic Reforms and Welfare Systems in the USSR, Poland and Hungary. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11690-4_7
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