POVERTY, URBANITY AND SOCIAL POLICY: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE COMPARED -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: CHILDREN, POVERTY AND SOCIAL POLICY -- POVERTY, URBANITY AND SOCIAL POLICY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF WELFARE REFORMS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES -- A NEW TYPE OF WELFARE REGIME IN CEE? -- THIS BOOK -- CHILDREN, POVERTY AND SOCIAL POLICY -- POVERTY, GENDER AND SOCIAL POLICY -- URBAN POLICY, RENEWAL AND POVERTY -- SOCIAL POLICY: EAST-WEST COMPARISONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- EXTREME POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HERITAGE OF A DECADE OF TRANSITION -- DATA AND BASIC ASSUMPTIONS FOR POVERTY MEASUREMENT -- LEVELS AND TRENDS IN CHILD POVERTY -- RELATIVE POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN -- POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION -- URBAN, RURAL AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN CHILD POVERTY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RULES FROM ABOVE, VIEWS FROM BELOW: ACCESSING AND USING CHILD HEALTH SERVICES IN POST-COMMUNIST RURAL ROMANIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND RURAL POVERTY -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH DESIGN -- Modelling Child Health Care Decisions -- Data: Study Sites, Respondents and Instruments -- FINDINGS: FORMAL STRUCTURES AND INFORMAL NORMS -- Formal Norms: Organizational Structure of the Health Care System and Financing Health Care in Rural Areas -- Human Resources: Medical Staff, Nurses and Local Healers -- Informal Norms and Procedures: 'Under-the-Table' Payments, Enduring Legacies of the Past -- Over-Utilization of Tertiary Care versus Primary Health Care: Real Health Care Choices for the Rural Poor?.

The Politics behind the Health Care System Adversely Affect Delivery -- CONCLUSION: RURAL POVERTY AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: THE CONUNDRUM FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION -- REFERENCES -- PART II: GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY AND POVERTY -- GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY AND POVERTY IN CEE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GENDER REGIMES -- EMPLOYMENT -- RECONCILING EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY -- INCOME REDISTRIBUTION -- MARKETISATION VS. THE SWEDISH MODEL -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR WORKING PARENTS IN RUSSIA: ALLEVIATING POVERTY AND CONSTRUCTING GENDER ROLES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL APPROACH, DATA AND METHOD -- PARENTAL LEAVE MODEL -- FINANCIAL SUPPORT MODEL -- ANALYSIS OF FAMILY POLICY EFFECTS FOR POVERTY RELIEF -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART III: URBAN POLICY, RENEWAL AND POVERTY -- URBAN RENEWAL AND SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATIONS IN POST-SOVIET RIGA: FROM SOVIET CITY TO 'WESTERN' METROPOLIS? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ENTWINE THE TIME - A THEORETICAL VIEW -- 'THE PARIS OF THE BALTIC SEA REGION' -- AT THE CROSSROADS -- FROM STATE ADMINISTRATION TO MARKET VALUES -- RIGA DOCKLANDS? -- HOUSING FOR 'LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE' -- THE LARGE AREAS - AN INHERITANCE FROM THE SOVIET ERA -- TRANSITION TOWARDS DIVISION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INCREASING ENCLAVES OF POVERTY AND WEALTH IN THE CITY OF GDANSK: THE IMPACT FROM URBAN POLICY AND OWNERSHIP REGULATION? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PREVIOUS RESEARCH -- THE CASE OF THE POST-COMMUNIST CITY OF GDANSK -- URBAN POLICY AND OWNERSHIP REGULATIONS AFTER THE FALL OF THE SOCIALIST REGIME IN POLAND -- THE IMPACT OF URBAN PLANNING -- THE PROCESSES OF DECLINE -- THE EMERGENCE OF GATED COMMUNITIES IN THE CITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: SOCIAL POLICY: EAST-WEST COMPARISON -- WHY NOT THE NORDIC WELFARE STATE MODEL IN LITHUANIA? TRENDS IN LITHUANIAN AND NORWEGIAN SOCIAL POLICIES.

ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MODELS OF THE WELFARE STATES -- SOCIAL POLICY IN NORWAY FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IN INDEPENDENT LITHUANIA (1990-2008) -- LITHUANIA AND NORWAY COMPARED -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- AIMS, TOOLS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF FAMILY POLICY - ESTONIA IN COMPARISON WITH WEST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AT THE END OF THE 1990S -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FAMILY POLICY IN ESTONIA IN BRIEF -- METHOD AND DATA -- OBJECTIVES OF FAMILY POLICY -- FACTORS INFLUENCING RHETORIC -- GROUPS OF COUNTRIES ACCORDING TO EFFECTIVENESS OF FAMILY POLICY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE NEOLIBERAL TRANSITION IN THE EAST AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE WELFARE STATE IN THE FORMER SECOND WORLD -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NEW SOCIAL RISKS OF THE FORMER SECOND WORLD -- GENDER AND THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY -- URBANITY IN MODERNITY -- ARE THERE POST-COMMUNIST WELFARE STATE MODELS? -- THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE WELFARE STATE -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.