Chapter 15: Austerity, populism and welfare retrenchment in Central and South Eastern Europe
Noémi Lendvai-Bainton
and
Paul Stubbs
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Handbook Chapter
Published:
11 May 2021
Page Range:
207–220
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906745.00022
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This chapter explores austerity and welfare retrenchment in Central and South Eastern Europe, with a selective focus on Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic together with parts of the post-Yugoslav space (Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia), exploring the key drivers of welfare reforms during and after the 2007-8 economic and financial crisis. The chapter anchors austerity, taken as a systematic and deliberate form of welfare restructuring as a consequence of fiscal consolidation and debt reduction by the state, around four key nodes: rising populism, ethnicized nationalism, political authoritarianism and re-embedded neoliberalism.

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Cover Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Edited by
Bent Greve
Handbook
Published:
11 May 2021
Print ISBN:
9781789906738
eISBN:
9781789906745
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906745
Pages:
432
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
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