Contemporaneously to the American McCarthyite response towards communism during early cold war there existed a similar reaction in United Kingdom. Like its counterpart States, British McCarthyism not only attacked internal ‘reds’ but also non-communist elements within nation's borders. The phenomenon denounced and accused governmental societal institutions individuals for tolerating even abetti...

This paper provides an overview of the administration and financing health care system in Bulgaria, starting with model under communism, continuing transition period.

After the collapse of communism, Eastern and Southeastern European counties have experienced significant changes, especially in terms of transition to market economy was achieved through efforts of liberalization and elimination of all forms of national control. As a consequence, some of the social welfare states in the region, still anchored to the old forms of organization, faced serious diff...

In this paper I use extensive spatial variation in end-of-communism local skill endowment to test for the presence of human capital spillovers and to understand the regional variation in returns to education in a transition country — the Czech Republic. The evidence is consistent with a tendency of skill-intensive production to locate in areas relatively abundant in skills, but I find no eviden...

This paper analyzes subjective well-being in Romania in 2001, 11 years after the collapse of the communism and the beginning of the transition to a market economy. Using a survey among 1770 individuals, we analyze the effects of various variables on self-reported measures of life satisfaction, and find that life satisfaction increases with housing standard, health status, economic situation, ed...

We study how exposure to (Soviet) communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist state planning, affected the preferences for family support, which we refer as informal insurance. Against backdrop that ‘communism gave rise abolition of family’, document it actually strengthened preference (the demand) insurance without depressing individuals' social exploit cross-country and ...

The key aim of this article is to expose the specificity theory totalitarianism in context Cardinal Wyszyński’s humanitarian-personalist concept socio-political life. Hence, it provides a unique insight into nature totalitarian systems, both German Nazi Hitlerism and Communism. Analyses were performed reinterpret above systems from perspective Christian personalist praxeology, taking account fu...