Introduction : welfare states and postcommunist transitions -- Old welfare state structures and reform strategies -- Non-negotiated liberalization : decentralizing Russia's welfare state and moving it off-budget -- Contested liberalization : Russia's politics of polarization and informalization -- Welfare reform in Putin's Russia : negotiating liberalization within the elite -- Comparing postcommunist welfare state politics: Poland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, and Belarus -- Conclusion : negotiating welfare in democratic and authoritarian transitions.
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