I would like to inform you about a new book: “Welfare states in transition – 20 years after the Yugoslav welfare model”, edited by Stambolieva, Marija and Dehnert, Stefan, and published by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. The book can be found under new books: http://www.fes.de/international/publikationen/aktuell.php and is available for download directly from: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/sofia/08711.pdf
It aims to to offer comprehensive insight in the two decades of transformation of the Social States of the former Yugoslavia, in particular their pension- and health-care systems, the labor markets and social inclusion policies.
Here I enclose a short excerpt from the Review by Dr.Alfred Pfaller: “The wealth of descriptive information makes “Welfare States in Transition – 20 Years After the Yugoslav Welfare Model” a unique document of reference for all those studying the development of post-Yugoslavian societies, and also for those whose focus of interest is the transition from authoritarian socialism to capitalism cum democracy from a more general perspective, which transcends the Balkans.(…) The policy-making described in “Welfare States in Transition”, incoherent as it may have been, has eventually created a new architecture of social protection that will not be fundamentally changed in the foreseeable future. However, it is to be expected that this architecture will be confronted with plenty of demands for adjustment, extension and trimming as social and economic problems feed into political pressure. And it is also to be expected that welfare-state reform will remain a salient issue – from the policy advisor as well as from the comparative observer's perspective – in the Balkan social-science community. “Welfare States in Transition” will be an indispensable volume of reference in the debate”.
We hope you will find it both useful and enjoyable to read.
Best regards,
Marija
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Marija Stambolieva
Researcher, PhD Candidate
University of Kassel, FB 5, Department of Political Science
Nora-Platiel-Straße 1
DE-34109 Kassel
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