CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Delcea, Sergiu |
|---|---|
| Title | The welfare-state as a means of nation-building in interwar Romania, 1930-1938 |
| Summary | Within a growing body of scholarly works devoted to the path-dependent entanglement of nation-building and welfare-regime creation, the Romanian case is either shallowly analyzed or completely neglected. Building on certain soft spots in historical institutionalism concerning explanations of path-starting moments of Central and Eastern European welfare states in general, the aim of this thesis is to offer a case-study of the lesser known Romanian social policy development. The research offers an analysis of the interwar path-starting moment of the Romanian welfare state dissecting the implementation of a pro-urban bias laced with nationalistic overtones so as to mold the Romanian nation into the template of a "modern Western capitalist nation". The main argument is that the apparent misfit between a pro-urban biased welfare state and an 80% agricultural country was in fact a coherent and pro-active elite modernizing strategy designed to (re)create and/or strengthen a "desirable core" of the nation. The research is based on two pillars - an intellectual history analysis of the political arena in 1930s Romania and an analysis of welfare policies (design and coverage) measuring the extents of the urban and ethnic biases. |
| Supervisor | Szalai, Julia |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/delcea_sergiu.pdf |
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