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<p>This article analyzes the institutional architecture and the level of similarity between the social protection system in 11 new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe and chosen Western European countries, representing four different models of capitalism identified by Amable. In the selected institutional area, a comparative analysis was performed, and based on it, similarity hexagons were created. They serve the purpose of comparing Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries with Western European countries of reference. The dynamic approach adopted in this study—two different time periods were compared—allows an analysis of path dependence and the evolution of institutional architecture over time. The analysis indicates that in 2014, in the area of social protection, almost all CEE countries, apart from Latvia and Romania, were most comparable to the Continental model of capitalism represented by Germany. Nevertheless, the variety of results for the individual variables (especially input and output variables) and substantial changes between 2005 and 2014 also show that the model of capitalism prevailing in Central and Eastern Europe in the area of the social protection system is evolving constantly at a very fast pace and thus currently may be called a hybrid or even patchwork capitalism.</p>
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This article analyzes the institutional architecture and the level of similarity between the social protection system in 11 new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe and chosen Western European countries, representing four different models of capitalism identified by Amable. In the selected institutional area, a comparative analysis was performed, and based on it, similarity hexagons were created. They serve the purpose of comparing Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries with Western European countries of reference. The dynamic approach adopted in this study—two different time periods were compared—allows an analysis of path dependence and the evolution of institutional architecture over time. The analysis indicates that in 2014, in the area of social protection, almost all CEE countries, apart from Latvia and Romania, were most comparable to the Continental model of capitalism represented by Germany. Nevertheless, the variety of results for the individual variables (especially input and output variables) and substantial changes between 2005 and 2014 also show that the model of capitalism prevailing in Central and Eastern Europe in the area of the social protection system is evolving constantly at a very fast pace and thus currently may be called a hybrid or even patchwork capitalism.

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Collegium of World Economy, SGH Warsaw School of Economics

International Journal of Management and Economics

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The comparative empirical analysis of the social protection system in selected Central and Eastern European countries: Emerging models of capitalism

This article analyzes the institutional architecture and the level of similarity between the social protection system in 11 new EU member states from Central...

The comparative empirical analysis of the social protection system in selected Central and Eastern European countries: Emerging models of capitalism¹

Article Category: Empirical Paper

Published Online: May 20, 2020

Page range: 159 - 175

Received: Oct 15, 2018

Accepted: Mar 01, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2020-0010

Keywords
varieties of capitalism, institutions, CEE countries, post-communist capitalism

© 2020 Piotr Maszczyk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The comparative empirical analysis of the social protection system in selected Central and Eastern European countries: Emerging models of capitalism1

Article Category: Empirical Paper

Published Online: May 20, 2020

Page range: 159 - 175

Received: Oct 15, 2018

Accepted: Mar 01, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2020-0010

Keywordsvarieties of capitalism, institutions, CEE countries, post-communist capitalism

© 2020 Piotr Maszczyk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The comparative empirical analysis of the social protection system in selected Central and Eastern European countries: Emerging models of capitalism¹

Keywords
varieties of capitalism, institutions, CEE countries, post-communist capitalism