Chapter 1 Introduction: Social Policy Pathways, Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Chapter 2 Social Policy in East Central Europe: Major Trends in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 3 Mechanisms of Institutional Change in Central and Eastern European Welfare State Restructuring

Chapter 4 Power, Order and the Politics of Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe

Chapter 5 Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia: Adaptation and Reform of the Post-Communist ‘Emergency Welfare States’

Chapter 6 The Transformation of Welfare Systems in the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Chapter 7 Welfare State Transformations in Bulgaria and Romania

Chapter 8 Transnational Actors in Central and East European Pension Reforms

Chapter 9 Elder Care Systems: Policy Transfer and Europeanization

Chapter 10 The Impact of Minimum Income Guarantee Schemes in Central and Eastern Europe

Chapter 11 Devolution of Social Protection Arrangements

Chapter 12 The Impact of the EU Social Inclusion Strategy: the Czech Case

Chapter 13 The Eastern European Welfare State in Comparative Perspective