Linda J Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda J Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7323-8584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Introduction: Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities
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Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks
Since 2000, literature on West (EU15) and East-Central European (EU8) welfare states has focused on a set of ‘new social risks’ including insecure employment and income, population ageing, unsustainable social security systems, and large-scale international immigration. Our State-of-the-Art (SOTA) article brings Russia into the dialogue on ‘new social risks’. We show that broadly similar structural changes in industrial economies, labour markets …
Welfare Reforms in Post-Soviet States: Current Issues and Research Highlights
HAS ADOPTED major social policy reforms that incorporate contemporary state-of-the-art international principles and practices.New legislation has mandated deinstitutionalisation, that is, closing Russia's large network of residential facilities for children 'without parental supervision' ('deti bez popecheniya roditelei') 1 and people with disabilities.Programmes of foster care and adoption are emptying orphanages, while efforts have been made to…
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary
During the early 2000s governments in Russia, Poland and Hungary declared demographic crises and adopted pro-natalist programmes to increase fertility, as well as policies to support families with children. Our article compares their ‘flagship’ pro-natalist programmes: Russia’s Maternity Capital, Poland’s Family 500+, and Hungary’s enhanced earned income tax credit, all framed by governments’ neo-familialist discourses. We confirm these policies …
Central and Eastern European Countries
This chapter discusses welfare state developments in eleven countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that have joined the European Union since 2004. It addresses historical, socioeconomic, and political contexts, with reference to theoretical questions involving typologies, clustering, and patterns of convergence in social policies. It analyses diversity in welfare provision that we can observe not only within the region, but also in Europe …
Left Parties And Social Policy In Postcommunist Europe
This book attempts to explain why, and to evaluate what the return of the left has meant for the social policy of the states they have helped govern. It focuses on the East-Central European countries of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, significantly Russia.
Can Russia’s Health and Welfare Systems Handle the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the preparedness of Russia’s public health system to respond to a nationwide crisis, and the ability of its broader welfare state to cushion the population against the economic impacts. This essay puts these developments in the context of recent reforms of the health care and welfare systems, showing how they affected the population’s vulnerability to the pandemic’s health and economic shocks, and the government’s…
Outsourcing social services to NGOs in Russia: Federal Policy and Regional Responses
Our research bears on two critical issues for contemporary Russia: federal–regional power relations; and whether Moscow can modernize institutions and address dissatisfaction with social service delivery, a major political issue. It is the first comprehensive study of a major 2015 reform that ended the state monopoly over service provision and initiated outsourcing (contracting out) to socially oriented non-profits (SONPOs) and other non-state or…
Introduction: The Russian Welfare State in a Time of Economic Stagnation
This Special Issue is devoted to Russia’s welfare state during the years of economic stagnation that began in 2013. Twelve experts assess social conditions and reforms in poverty, labor market, pension, housing and education policies. They show that social mobility has stagnated in conditions of deep inequality and just-above-poverty incomes for many. Innovative labor market and anti-poverty policies are hampered by low productivity and wages, bo…
Welfare Reform, Protest and Stability in the Light of Reforms of Old-Age Pensions, Housing and Primary Education
Meeting popular expectations for social welfare delivery is one of the pillars upon which the current Russian regime bases its legitimacy. At the same time, the authorities try to transfer responsibility and costs to citizens and transfer service delivery to commercial actors. This article addresses the relationship between welfare reform and political stability in Russia. The discussion is based upon case studies of three large-scale reforms of …
The Carrot or the Stick? Constraints and Opportunities of Russia’s CSO Policy
Russian Pension Reform under Quadruple Influence
Russia’s government initiated pension reform in 2013 to resolve a crisis: the prolonged recession had created a huge Pension Fund deficit that required unsustainable subsidies from the state budget. The article analyzes four sets of influences on that reform: those from above (high-level policy makers), inside (government ministries, legislators), below (civil society, public opinion), and outside (international actors, policy learning). We find …
The Social Contract Revisited: Evidence from Communist and State Capitalist Economies
The social contract thesis explained stability in communist autocracies as a consequence of an implicit exchange between the regime and the populace: citizens remained quiescent and the regime provided them with secure jobs, social services, subsidised housing, and consumer goods. Our essay asks how well the social contract thesis applies in three different types of regimes. We review classic literature on the socialist social contract in light o…
Labor Relations in Russia: Moving to a “Market Social Contract”
The paper analyzes contemporary labor relations in Russia as constituting a distinctive “market social contract.” Focusing on market and state policy, labor law, and tripartism, we show how the state has been balancing needs for “social stability” and labor market efficiency. To promote “stability” it protects employment security and prohibits collective protest; to promote efficiency it accommodates pressures for labor market flexibility by tole…
New Winds of Social Policy in the East
East Europe’s welfare states have undergone enormous changes in the two and a half decades since Communism collapsed. After forming part of a distinctive Communist political economy for four decades, they have been restructured in market-conforming directions that re-define public and private responsibility for societal well-being. Civil society or nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and market providers have entered the welfare sphere. The present pa…
Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Russian labor: Quiescence and conflict
This paper aims to explain the characteristics and internal mechanisms of protest activity and solidarity among Russia’s industrial workers over the past two decades. Both academic discussions and officials’ attitudes toward protests prove contradictory. Even in periods of increase, labor activism has remained limited. Yet authorities continue to show concern about real and potential discontent, while academics puzzle over the dominance of quiesc…
Eastern Europe and Russia
This article describes the trajectories of welfare state change, and the agents of reform, the extent of transformation, and the typology of the region's contemporary welfare regimes. The communist welfare state model is briefly presented as a common starting point and source of persistent legacies, both institutional and normative. Debates over the agents and the depth of post-communist transformation are covered next. The institutions and perfo…
More Rights, Less Power: Labor Standards and Labor Markets in East European Post-communist States
Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America – By Kurt Weyland
Negotiating Welfare in Postcommunist States
Welfare states everywhere have been under pressure to retrench and restructure, to reduce public expenditures, and to adopt market-conforming welfare models. Such pressures have been especially intense in postcommunist East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. As these countries moved into market transition and recession dur ing the early 1990s, their inherited systems of broad, basic social provision became financially unsustainable and i…
NGOs and Social Policy-Making in Russia's Regions
Interviews with NGO leaders reveal that dialogue with authorities is ongoing, but signs of NGOs’ systematic influence on regional social policy are few
The Russian Welfare State: Obstacles to Restructuring
A specialist on Russian society and politics analyzes recent plans for reform of social policy in Russia. Based on documentary and interview evidence, case studies of housing and pension reform are presented. Prospects for the Putin government's social-sector reform program are considered
The Passport Society: Controlling Movement in Russia and the USSR
Passports under the Tsars early Bolshevik policies Stalin's passport system long-standing social problems the bureaucratic morass liberalization after communism regional dimensions
Labor Unions in Post-Communist Countries
Labor unions in post-communist Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic find it difficult to defend their members’ interests in the face of economic disruption and neo-liberal reform policies
Negotiating Welfare in Postcommunist States
Welfare states everywhere have been under pressure to retrench and restructure, to reduce public expenditures, and to adopt market-conforming welfare models. Such pressures have been especially intense in postcommunist East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. As these countries moved into market transition and recession dur ing the early 1990s, their inherited systems of broad, basic social provision became financially unsustainable and i…
The Social Contract Revisited: Evidence from Communist and State Capitalist Economies
The social contract thesis explained stability in communist autocracies as a consequence of an implicit exchange between the regime and the populace: citizens remained quiescent and the regime provided them with secure jobs, social services, subsidised housing, and consumer goods. Our essay asks how well the social contract thesis applies in three different types of regimes. We review classic literature on the socialist social contract in light o…
NGOs and Social Policy-Making in Russia's Regions
Interviews with NGO leaders reveal that dialogue with authorities is ongoing, but signs of NGOs’ systematic influence on regional social policy are few
The Passport Society: Controlling Movement in Russia and the USSR
Passports under the Tsars early Bolshevik policies Stalin's passport system long-standing social problems the bureaucratic morass liberalization after communism regional dimensions
The Carrot or the Stick? Constraints and Opportunities of Russia’s CSO Policy
The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary
During the early 2000s governments in Russia, Poland and Hungary declared demographic crises and adopted pro-natalist programmes to increase fertility, as well as policies to support families with children. Our article compares their ‘flagship’ pro-natalist programmes: Russia’s Maternity Capital, Poland’s Family 500+, and Hungary’s enhanced earned income tax credit, all framed by governments’ neo-familialist discourses. We confirm these policies …
Outsourcing social services to NGOs in Russia: Federal Policy and Regional Responses
Our research bears on two critical issues for contemporary Russia: federal–regional power relations; and whether Moscow can modernize institutions and address dissatisfaction with social service delivery, a major political issue. It is the first comprehensive study of a major 2015 reform that ended the state monopoly over service provision and initiated outsourcing (contracting out) to socially oriented non-profits (SONPOs) and other non-state or…
Russian Pension Reform under Quadruple Influence
Russia’s government initiated pension reform in 2013 to resolve a crisis: the prolonged recession had created a huge Pension Fund deficit that required unsustainable subsidies from the state budget. The article analyzes four sets of influences on that reform: those from above (high-level policy makers), inside (government ministries, legislators), below (civil society, public opinion), and outside (international actors, policy learning). We find …
Brezhnev's ‘social contract’ and Gorbachev's reforms
(1992). Brezhnev's ‘social contract’ and Gorbachev's reforms. Soviet Studies: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 37-56
The Russian Welfare State: Obstacles to Restructuring
A specialist on Russian society and politics analyzes recent plans for reform of social policy in Russia. Based on documentary and interview evidence, case studies of housing and pension reform are presented. Prospects for the Putin government's social-sector reform program are considered
New Winds of Social Policy in the East
East Europe’s welfare states have undergone enormous changes in the two and a half decades since Communism collapsed. After forming part of a distinctive Communist political economy for four decades, they have been restructured in market-conforming directions that re-define public and private responsibility for societal well-being. Civil society or nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and market providers have entered the welfare sphere. The present pa…
Workers in the Russian Federation
The present study examines workers' responses to the post-communist transition in the Russian Federation from 1989 through 1993. It considers how workers defined, articulated, and organized around their interests under conditions of simultaneous democratization and economic reform, focusing on: the impacts of reform, particularly declining real wages and employment security; labor strikes, including incidence, demands, and settlement; activities …
More Rights, Less Power: Labor Standards and Labor Markets in East European Post-communist States
Welfare Reforms in Post-Soviet States: Current Issues and Research Highlights
HAS ADOPTED major social policy reforms that incorporate contemporary state-of-the-art international principles and practices.New legislation has mandated deinstitutionalisation, that is, closing Russia's large network of residential facilities for children 'without parental supervision' ('deti bez popecheniya roditelei') 1 and people with disabilities.Programmes of foster care and adoption are emptying orphanages, while efforts have been made to…
Russian labor: Quiescence and conflict
This paper aims to explain the characteristics and internal mechanisms of protest activity and solidarity among Russia’s industrial workers over the past two decades. Both academic discussions and officials’ attitudes toward protests prove contradictory. Even in periods of increase, labor activism has remained limited. Yet authorities continue to show concern about real and potential discontent, while academics puzzle over the dominance of quiesc…
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks
Since 2000, literature on West (EU15) and East-Central European (EU8) welfare states has focused on a set of ‘new social risks’ including insecure employment and income, population ageing, unsustainable social security systems, and large-scale international immigration. Our State-of-the-Art (SOTA) article brings Russia into the dialogue on ‘new social risks’. We show that broadly similar structural changes in industrial economies, labour markets …
Welfare Reform, Protest and Stability in the Light of Reforms of Old-Age Pensions, Housing and Primary Education
Meeting popular expectations for social welfare delivery is one of the pillars upon which the current Russian regime bases its legitimacy. At the same time, the authorities try to transfer responsibility and costs to citizens and transfer service delivery to commercial actors. This article addresses the relationship between welfare reform and political stability in Russia. The discussion is based upon case studies of three large-scale reforms of …
Labor Unions in Post-Communist Countries
Labor unions in post-communist Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic find it difficult to defend their members’ interests in the face of economic disruption and neo-liberal reform policies
Introduction: The Russian Welfare State in a Time of Economic Stagnation
This Special Issue is devoted to Russia’s welfare state during the years of economic stagnation that began in 2013. Twelve experts assess social conditions and reforms in poverty, labor market, pension, housing and education policies. They show that social mobility has stagnated in conditions of deep inequality and just-above-poverty incomes for many. Innovative labor market and anti-poverty policies are hampered by low productivity and wages, bo…
Labor Relations in Russia: Moving to a “Market Social Contract”
The paper analyzes contemporary labor relations in Russia as constituting a distinctive “market social contract.” Focusing on market and state policy, labor law, and tripartism, we show how the state has been balancing needs for “social stability” and labor market efficiency. To promote “stability” it protects employment security and prohibits collective protest; to promote efficiency it accommodates pressures for labor market flexibility by tole…
The Politics of Soviet Enterprise Insolvency
An Algebra of Soviet Power: Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic 1966-1986. Michael E. Urban
Brezhnev's ‘social contract’ and Gorbachev's reforms
(1992). Brezhnev's ‘social contract’ and Gorbachev's reforms. Soviet Studies: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 37-56
The Awakening of the Soviet Union
The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia. Walter Connor
The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management. Peter Rutland
The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Labor Unions in Post-Communist Countries
Labor unions in post-communist Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic find it difficult to defend their members’ interests in the face of economic disruption and neo-liberal reform policies
Workers in post-communist Poland, Russia, and Ukraine
The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Workers in the Russian Federation
The present study examines workers' responses to the post-communist transition in the Russian Federation from 1989 through 1993. It considers how workers defined, articulated, and organized around their interests under conditions of simultaneous democratization and economic reform, focusing on: the impacts of reform, particularly declining real wages and employment security; labor strikes, including incidence, demands, and settlement; activities …
The Passport Society: Controlling Movement in Russia and the USSR
Passports under the Tsars early Bolshevik policies Stalin's passport system long-standing social problems the bureaucratic morass liberalization after communism regional dimensions
The Russian Welfare State: Obstacles to Restructuring
A specialist on Russian society and politics analyzes recent plans for reform of social policy in Russia. Based on documentary and interview evidence, case studies of housing and pension reform are presented. Prospects for the Putin government's social-sector reform program are considered
NGOs and Social Policy-Making in Russia's Regions
Interviews with NGO leaders reveal that dialogue with authorities is ongoing, but signs of NGOs’ systematic influence on regional social policy are few
Negotiating Welfare in Postcommunist States
Welfare states everywhere have been under pressure to retrench and restructure, to reduce public expenditures, and to adopt market-conforming welfare models. Such pressures have been especially intense in postcommunist East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. As these countries moved into market transition and recession dur ing the early 1990s, their inherited systems of broad, basic social provision became financially unsustainable and i…
Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America – By Kurt Weyland
Eastern Europe and Russia
This article describes the trajectories of welfare state change, and the agents of reform, the extent of transformation, and the typology of the region's contemporary welfare regimes. The communist welfare state model is briefly presented as a common starting point and source of persistent legacies, both institutional and normative. Debates over the agents and the depth of post-communist transformation are covered next. The institutions and perfo…
More Rights, Less Power: Labor Standards and Labor Markets in East European Post-communist States
Russian labor: Quiescence and conflict
This paper aims to explain the characteristics and internal mechanisms of protest activity and solidarity among Russia’s industrial workers over the past two decades. Both academic discussions and officials’ attitudes toward protests prove contradictory. Even in periods of increase, labor activism has remained limited. Yet authorities continue to show concern about real and potential discontent, while academics puzzle over the dominance of quiesc…
Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
Labor Relations in Russia: Moving to a “Market Social Contract”
The paper analyzes contemporary labor relations in Russia as constituting a distinctive “market social contract.” Focusing on market and state policy, labor law, and tripartism, we show how the state has been balancing needs for “social stability” and labor market efficiency. To promote “stability” it protects employment security and prohibits collective protest; to promote efficiency it accommodates pressures for labor market flexibility by tole…
New Winds of Social Policy in the East
East Europe’s welfare states have undergone enormous changes in the two and a half decades since Communism collapsed. After forming part of a distinctive Communist political economy for four decades, they have been restructured in market-conforming directions that re-define public and private responsibility for societal well-being. Civil society or nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and market providers have entered the welfare sphere. The present pa…
Russian Pension Reform under Quadruple Influence
Russia’s government initiated pension reform in 2013 to resolve a crisis: the prolonged recession had created a huge Pension Fund deficit that required unsustainable subsidies from the state budget. The article analyzes four sets of influences on that reform: those from above (high-level policy makers), inside (government ministries, legislators), below (civil society, public opinion), and outside (international actors, policy learning). We find …
The Social Contract Revisited: Evidence from Communist and State Capitalist Economies
The social contract thesis explained stability in communist autocracies as a consequence of an implicit exchange between the regime and the populace: citizens remained quiescent and the regime provided them with secure jobs, social services, subsidised housing, and consumer goods. Our essay asks how well the social contract thesis applies in three different types of regimes. We review classic literature on the socialist social contract in light o…
The Carrot or the Stick? Constraints and Opportunities of Russia’s CSO Policy
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