MARIA BUCUR The Nation's Gratitude: World War 1 and Citizenship Rights in Interwar Romania (London: Routledge, 2023), 231 pp.

Abstract

Although an increasingly voluminous scholarship has contributed to unpacking Central and Eastern European (CEE) "hybrid welfare regimes," significant gaps still remain, particularly vis-â-vis the very first policy choices. This occurs due to a preference for macro-structural approaches which do not fully dissect the layered and complex "etatization of welfare programs". Picking up the gauntlet, Maria Bucur offers an in-depth historical analysis on the transformation of individuals into socio-political stakeholders, via state centralization.