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 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

Chapter 14 Epilogue: Lessons Learnt and Open Questions