The Lessons of the European Social Welfare Regimes for Ukraine: Case Study of Slovakian Welfare Policies in the 1990s

Student: Shestak Serhii

Supervisor: Caroline Schlaufer

Educational Programme: Political Analysis and Public Policy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

Over the 30 years Ukrainian “social state” hasn’t reformed its social system so that its citizens could feel themselves secured. Meanwhile, social policy is at the core of today’s political debates in Ukraine whereas the adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to EU legislation, in particular in the social sphere, is one of the requirements for further EU integration. This raises the question of how the Ukrainian welfare system, particularly pension system, that is built on Soviet experience can become sustainable, efficient and providing social protection to everybody. To reform this system Ukraine consequently needs to learn from European experience.

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses