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Silent Non-Exit and Broken Voice. Early Postcommunist Social Policies as Protest-Preempting Strategies

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  • Vanhuysse Pieter

    (University of Southern Denmark, Danish Centre for Welfare Studies (DaWS) and the Department of Political Science and Public Management, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark)

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This essay contributes to the development of an analytical political sociology examination of postcommunist policy pathways and applies such an analysis in a reinterpretation of the social policy pathways taken by Hungary and Poland. During the critical historical juncture of the early 1990s, governments in these new democracies used social policies to proactively create new labor market outsiders (rather than merely accommodate or deal with existing outsiders) in an effort to stifle disruptive repertoires of political voice. Microcollective action theory helps to elucidate how the break-up of hitherto relatively homogeneous clusters of threatened workers into newly competing interest groups shaped the nature of distributive conflict in the formative first decade of these new democracies. In this light, we see how the analytical political sociology of postcommunist social policy can advance and modify current, predominantly Western-oriented theories of insider/outsider conflict and welfare retrenchment policy, and can inform future debates about emerging social policy biases in Eastern Europe.

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  • Vanhuysse Pieter, 2019. "Silent Non-Exit and Broken Voice. Early Postcommunist Social Policies as Protest-Preempting Strategies," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 67(2), pages 150-174, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:67:y:2019:i:2:p:150-174:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2019-0012
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