Editorial introduction: Baltic states after the crisis? The transformation of the welfare system and social problems

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Jolanta Aidukaite

Jolanta Aidukaite (PhD in sociology from Stockholm University) is a Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Social Research Centre. J. Aidukaite has published extensively on the topics of social policy, family policy, housing policy, community mobilization. Examples of her publications include “The role of leaders in shaping urban movements: a study of community mobilisation in Lithuania” (East European Politics, 2016), “The Formation of Social Insurance Institutions of the Baltic States in the Post-socialist era” (Journal of European Social Policy, 2006), “Transformation of welfare systems in the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania” (in Post-Communist Welfare Pathways: Theorizing Social Policy Transformations, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), “Welfare Reforms and Socio-economic Trends in the Ten New EU Member States of Central and Eastern Europe” (Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2011). 

Sven E O Hort

Sven E O Hort is an emeritus of Linnaeus University, Kalmar and Växjö, Sweden. He is editor-in-chief of Asia Social Work and Policy Review published by Wiley. In 2015 he retired from Seoul National University where he was a professor in social Welfare at its College of Social Sciences. With two Colleagues he is the editor of a forthcoming Volume ”Globalizing Welfare: an evolving Asian-European Dialogue” (out from Edward Elgar). Twice he has been a Fulbright scholar in the US. A third, enlarged edition of his dissertation ”Social Policy, Welfare State and Civil Society in Sweden” (in two volumes) is on the market (Lund, Arkiv 2014). He received his PhD in Sociology from Stockholm University and is an Alma mater of Lund University, Sweden.