This book examines the influence of authoritarian rule on the development of the welfare state. Building on theoretical approaches from research on autocratic regimes and comparative welfare state research, it develops a novel theoretical argument on authoritarian pension policy. In a case study focusing on the development of the public pension system in Bulgaria during more than a century of authoritarian rule (1879–1989), it shows that distinct types of authoritarian regimes have different impact on the institutional design of the public pension system depending on their specific patterns of legitimation and ideological orientations.
About the AuthorMaria Ignatova-Pfarr is a political scientist and has been working as a research assistant at SOCIUM, Research Centre for Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen since 2020, where she conducts research in the field of the political economy of the welfare state. Her research focuses on historical welfare state research, war and welfare state development, and social policy in communist states.
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