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The beginnings of the welfare state along the Romanian path: a brief retrospective on the stages of re-conceptualization
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Abstract The article takes issue with the deeply entrenched historical conception about the shaping of social policies in pre-communist Romania, which indicates socialist politics and socialist-enlisted worker trade-unionism as the only significant agents of change, also depicting the non-socialist political... view more
The article takes issue with the deeply entrenched historical conception about the shaping of social policies in pre-communist Romania, which indicates socialist politics and socialist-enlisted worker trade-unionism as the only significant agents of change, also depicting the non-socialist political forces of the time as participating to the process by merely employing the strategy of stern resistance and piecemeal concessions. The alternative view offered stresses the pivotal roles performed in the context by the ideological trend of socially-minded liberalism, by the movements of professional representation with petty entrepreneurial and white-collar constituencies and by the corporatist design for the representation of professional interests. The successive stages of the inquiry leading to the formulation of such interpretative theses - and inaugurated as a research on the relation between fascist modernism and the corporatist vision of rapid economic growth under an authoritarian political cover in the local milieu - are disclosed all throughout.... view less
Keywords
Romania; social policy; left-wing liberalism; corporatism; socialism
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Social Policy
Document language
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 35-56
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 18 (2018) 1
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0