Inequality After the Transition: Political Parties, Party Systems, and Social Policy in Southern and Postcommunist...

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Ekrem Karakoç (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Binghamton University (SUNY))

Inequality After the Transition

Political Parties, Party Systems, and Social Policy in Southern and Postcommunist Europe

Ekrem Karakoç (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Binghamton University (SUNY))

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Oxford University Press
11 October 2018

Welfare & benefit systems; Comparative politics; Political economy

Series: Comparative Politics

After the Transition is an all-encompassing examination of the origins, increase, and persistence of inequality in new democracies. It challenges the conventional thinking found in much of the democratization-inequality literature, and offers a new theory. It speaks simultaneously to literature of democratization, party systems, social policy, and inequality to explain why democracies are not able to fulfill their promise to the disadvantaged and why they cannot achieve income equality.

It investigates social policy programs such as pensions, unemployment benefits, and other social transfers in Poland and the Czech Republic in Post-Communist Europe, and Turkey and Spain in Southern Europe. The volume traces the origins and development of social policy, from the formation of nation-states to the present, and considers how different political regimes, whether totalitarian; post-totalitarian; or authoritarian, designed welfare policies to prioritize civil servants and

the working classes in formal sectors at the expense of the majority poor. It then demonstrates how these legacies perpetuate and widen disparities in access to welfare policies, and thus income inequality in countries where low mobilization by the poor and unstable party systems prevail. This study employs interviews with Polish, Czech, Turkish, and Spanish union leaders; bureaucrats; and business people while also conducting an original survey in Turkey to dissect the linkage between organized groups and parties. Employing a multi-method approach, two paired case studies on these countries also demystify why and how new populist parties have successfully appealed to voters and affected the trajectory of social policy, party systems and inequality.

Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.

By: Ekrem Karakoç (Associate Professor of Political Science Associate Professor of Political Science Binghamton University (SUNY))
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 682g
ISBN: 9780198826927
ISBN 10: 0198826923
Series: Comparative Politics
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 11 October 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ekrem Karakoç is Associate Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University (SUNY). His dissertation, this book is built upon, received the 2010 Juan Linz Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy from American Political Science Association (APSA). He has published numerous articles on economic inequality in numerous journals such as World Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and European Political Science Review.