Rigiditate instituţională şi reforma politicii sociale
Institutional stickiness and social policy reform

Summary/Abstract: The economic crisis brings back into attention the neglected issue of welfare state retrenchment and pressures to scale down social spending. Recent literature on welfare state shifted the focus from ideal types of welfare states to institutional constraints that affect the ability of a government to change the status quo. The analytical framework of veto players provides a useful tool not only for the affluent Western societies but also for the analysis of post-communist states. In the case of Romania, the core hypothesis of “new politics” of welfare state, namely the correlation between institutional stickiness and the success of social policy retrenchment proves to be sound.

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