caa a22 4500 606151907 CHVBK 20210128100546.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-015-9642-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-015-9642-7 Cook Linda Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, USA aut New Winds of Social Policy in the East [Elektronische Daten] [Linda Cook] East Europe's welfare states have undergone enormous changes in the two and a half decades since Communism collapsed. After forming part of a distinctive Communist political economy for four decades, they have been restructured in market-conforming directions that re-define public and private responsibility for societal well-being. Civil society or nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and market providers have entered the welfare sphere. The present paper maps divergent trajectories of East-Central European (ECE) welfare states and those of the Former Soviet Union (FSU), focusing on persistent legacies as well as innovation, political negotiation over reforms, and the strong influence of the European Union in shaping outcomes. It shows the growing role of NPOs across contemporary ECE and FSU welfare sectors, as advocates and as service providers partnering with governments. While NPOs remain comparatively weak in post-communist states, there is remarkable convergence of democratic and authoritarian regimes around policies of government-NPO partnerships to improve welfare performance. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2015 East-Central Europe (ECE) nationallicence Former Soviet Union (FSU) nationallicence Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) nationallicence Social policy nationallicence Welfare state nationallicence VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/6(2015-12-01), 2330-2350 0957-8765 26:6<2330 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9642-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9642-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cook Linda Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/6(2015-12-01), 2330-2350 0957-8765 26:6<2330 2015 26 11266