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Contemporary Welfare Regimes in Baltic States: Adapting Post-Communist Conditions to Post-Modern Challenges Open
This article revises the conventional approach to welfare state development in the post-communist world, according to which the main challenge for the Eastern European states is to catch up with Western European welfare regimes. The articl…
Implementation of Joined-up Governance for Solving Youth Employability Issues in Estonia: Matching EU Pressures and Civil Servants’ Perceptions Open
This article focuses on the supply side of joined-up governance in youth policy. Theoretically, the article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how the challenge for more intense cooperation has altered the roles of central go…
Policy mixes and youth vulnerability in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis of the NEET rate Open
This article examines the capability of various welfare states to mitigate youth vulnerability, operationalized as a low NEET rate. It aims to complement existing empirical knowledge with a novel set of indicators and Europe-wide configura…
Have the lessons of the Second World War been learned? Analysis of the ability of the European Union countries to mobilise common resources to counter threats of military invasion Open
The subject of the research throws light on the political dimension of a little-explored page of European history – the military-political metamorphoses of the European Union within the political situation of the last two decades – in the …
Estonia: Civic and Citizenship Education in Turbulent Times Open
This chapter addresses Estonia's participation in IEA's Civic Education Study (CIVED), International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2009, and ICCS 2016. Participation in these IEA civic studies contributed to educational disc…
Futures of European welfare models and policies: seeking actual research questions, and new problem-solving arsenal for European welfare states Open
The key research question is to discuss and elaborate the potential value added that futures studies could provide for European citizens and political, social and economic institutions. In the article the problems of European welfare polic…