05201nam a22005175i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001200172072001600184072001600200072002300216072001500239072001500254245013900269250001800408264006900426300006500495336002600560337002600586338003600612347002400648505099800672520244001670650002604110650003704136650002704173650002004200650002604220650003304246650003104279650002404310700009004334710003404424773002604458776003604484776003604520776003604556856004604592912001404638912001404652999001704666978-3-031-51232-2DE-He21320251030111444.0cr nn 008mamaa240226s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315123229978-3-031-51232-27 a10.1007/978-3-031-51232-22doi 4aHV70-72 7aJKS2bicssc 7aJPR2bicssc 7aPOL0290002bisacsh 7aJKS2thema 7aJPR2thema10aSocial Work and Social Policy Transformations in Central and Southeast Europeh[electronic resource] /cedited by Maja Gerovska Mitev.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXXI, 200 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1. Welfare State Reforms and Their Implications for Social Work in Central and Southeast Europe -- Chapter 2. The Austrian Welfare State – a Halfway House -- Chapter 3. Social Policy and Social Work in the Czech Republic: Partners at Fragile Times -- Chapter 4. The Politics of Welfare – From Rights to Obligations: The Case of Slovenia -- Chapter 5. Social Work and Social Policy in Croatia in Times of Continuous Reforms and Crisis -- Chapter 6. Three Decades of Post-Yugoslav Tranformation(s) of Social Policy and Social Work in Serbia – Still Between Uncertainty and Failure -- Chapter 7. Social Policies and Social Services in North Macedonia: Between Ideology and Reality -- Chapter 8. Social Welfare Policy and Social Work in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Chapter 9. Social Protection in the Republic of Srpska: Conditions, Challenges and Reforms -- Chapter 10. Toward a Post-Crisis Welfare State in Central and Southeast Europe: Challenges and Perspectives.  aThis book provides a picture of recent developments in social policy and social work in Central and Southeast Europe, especially trends after the COVID-19 pandemic, which necessitated significant welfare modifications. Through a comparative method, the book draws analytical conclusions about the interdependence between welfare state reforms and social work practices in Central and Southeast Europe and provides an overview of future perspectives regarding social policy and social service provision in this region. The book covers four EU member states (Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Croatia) and three EU candidate countries (North Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina). By critically contextualising existing welfare state categorisations, the book aims to examine the link between the welfare state reforms and implications for social work in Central and Southeast Europe. The country-based chapters of this contributed volume: outline the context in which social policy and social work have developed and map the main changes in the welfare state since the transition from socialism; elaborate the country-specific welfare state discourse and discussions, which through literature review depict the conceptual debates about the welfare state, social justice, equality, poverty, entitlements for cash transfer and services, privatization, and accessibility; indicate the key challenges in social policy and social work; and provide indications about the future perspectives of social policy and social service provision. Social Work and Social Policy Transformations in Central and Southeast Europe addresses the scarcity of literature on social policy and social work in this region. The book is primarily intended for social policy researchers and scholars, and students in social work, social policy, political science, and sociology. It is an invaluable resource for researchers from all fields of social sciences and should provoke wider academic and professional interest. "The common themes of transformation, restructuring and crises, synthesized in excellent Introductory and Concluding chapters, make the book an essential source for an understanding of contemporary policies and practices, the complex role played by historical legacies, and offer a model of what a comparative policy approach should look like". —Paul Stubbs, Senior Research Fellow, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia . 0aSocial policy.960914 0aSocial servicexResearch.962475 0aHuman services.960913 0aSocial service.14aSocial Policy.96091424aSocial Work Research.96716924aSocial Work Policy.97177324aSocial Work.9624821 aGerovska Mitev, Maja.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt9717742 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303151231508iPrinted edition:z978303151233908iPrinted edition:z978303151234640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51232-2  aZDB-2-SLS  aZDB-2-SXS  c57887d57887