Divide and Pacify explains how social policies were used to prevent massive job losses with softening labor market policies, or to split up highly aggrieved groups of workers in precarious jobs by sending some of them onto unemployment benefits and many others onto early retirement and disability pensions. From a narrow economic viewpoint, these policies often appeared to be immensely costly or irresponsibly populist. Yet a more inclusive social-scientific perspective can shed new light on these seemingly irrational policies by pointing to deeper political motives and wider sociological consequences.
Divide and Pacify explains how social policies were used to prevent massive job losses with softening labor market policies, or to split up highly aggrieved groups of workers in precarious jobs by sending some of them onto unemployment benefits and many others onto early retirement and disability pensions. From a narrow economic viewpoint, these policies often appeared to be immensely costly or irresponsibly populist. Yet a more inclusive social-scientific perspective can shed new light on these seemingly irrational policies by pointing to deeper political motives and wider sociological consequences.
Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies
192Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies
192Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789633866993 |
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Publisher: | Central European University Press |
Publication date: | 09/15/2023 |
Pages: | 192 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |