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Social Service Reform in the Postcommunist State: Decentralization in Poland (Eugenia & Hugh M. Stewart 26 Series)
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Product Description The fall of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe raised the complex question of how social services were to be distributed and administered in countries with legacies of highly centralized state. In Poland, a series of reforms attempted to modify and decentralize social service programs. Yet with Polands second round of decentralization, longheld and clearly specified reform goals were undermined from the very outset.In this insightful, detailed, and carefully argued study, Janelle A. Kerlin demonstrates how and why reforms, intended to improve services and increase citizen participation in social service programming, largely failed to meet expected goals. The politics of reform developmentincluding political deals, exclusionary tactics, and hidden maneuvering by Polish policymakersprevented any significant upgrade of services or real change in decisionmaking structures. Conflicting ideologies and pressures on policy actors stemming from historical, institutional, political, and international sources often resulted in compromises that led to unfavorable public service outcomes.In this book, Kerlin uses focused interviews with leading reform actors and a nationwide representative survey of two hundred public social service institutions to develop a model that connects the politics of the decentralization process with social service outcomes.Not only students of the former Soviet bloc, but also those interested in the links between politics and policy outcomes more broadly will find in this volume an informative and instructive case study that has farreaching implications. Review The book also makes an outstanding contribution to the literature that links policy development with policy implementation.Douglas Ihrke Douglas Ihrke About the Author Janelle A. Kerlin holds a Ph.D. in political science from Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. A recent Woodrow Wilson Research Scholar, Kerlin now works for the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
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