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This chapter deals with the protracted processes of social policy transformations in Central and East European post-communist countries. Parallel processes of political democratization, institutionalization of the market economy, globalization and Europeanization form the relevant context of genuine domestic decision making and implementation. From a scholarly point of view, the processes of their societal transformations have been — and still are — a series of exciting natural experiments. As Esping-Andersen (1996a, p. 267) remarked: ‘East and Central Europe is clearly the most under-defined region, a virtual laboratory of experimentation’.
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Potůček, M. (2008). Metamorphoses of Welfare States in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Seeleib-Kaiser, M. (eds) Welfare State Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227392_5
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