LEADER 03748nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910777659803321 005 20230207224827.0 010 $a978-6-15521-144-7 010 $a978-615-5211-44-7 010 $a9786155211447 010 $a615-5211-44-2 010 $a1-4294-1337-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9786155211447 035 $a(CKB)1000000000465092 035 $a(OCoLC)290503677 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10209507 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140271 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139488 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140271 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10028975 035 $a(PQKB)10838623 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137259 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25953 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137259 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10209507 035 $a(OCoLC)939263403 035 $a(DE-B1597)633454 035 $a(DE-B1597)9786155211447 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000465092 100 $a20060706d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDivide and pacify$b[electronic resource] $estrategic social policies and political protests in post-communist democracies /$fPieter Vanhuysse 210 $aBudapest ;$aNew York $cCentral European University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a963-7326-79-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [141]-164) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The unexpected peacefulness of transitions -- Political quiescence despite conditions for conflict -- Preventing protests: divide and pacify as political strategy -- The great abnormal pensioner booms: strategic social policies in practice -- Peaceful pathways: the political economy of post- communist welfare -- Conclusions. 330 $aDespite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence. It shows how reforming governments in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been able to prevent massive waves of strikes and protests by the strategic use of welfare state programs such as pensions and unemployment benefits. Divide and Pacify explains how social policies were used to prevent massive job losses with softening labor market policies, or to split up highly aggrieved groups of workers in precarious jobs by sending some of them onto unemployment benefits and many others onto early retirement and disability pensions. From a narrow economic viewpoint, these policies often appeared to be immensely costly or irresponsibly populist. Yet a more inclusive social-scientific perspective can shed new light on these seemingly irrational policies by pointing to deeper political motives and wider sociological consequences. 606 $aNew democracies$zEurope, Central 606 $aPatronage, Political$zEurope, Central 607 $aEurope, Central$xSocial policy 607 $aPoland$xPolitics and government$y1989- 607 $aCzech Republic$xPolitics and government$y1993- 607 $aHungary$xPolitics and government$y1989- 610 $aEconomic policy, Labor history, Patronage, Political economy, Protests, Sociology, Transition. 615 0$aNew democracies 615 0$aPatronage, Political 676 $a320.9437 700 $aVanhuysse$b Pieter$01237320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777659803321 996 $aDivide and pacify$93768393 997 $aUNINA