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The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
- 1.0446233 - SOÚ 2017 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Hašková, Hana - Saxonberg, S.
The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
Social Policy & Administration. Roč. 50, č. 5 (2016), s. 559-579. ISSN 0144-5596. E-ISSN 1467-9515
R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP404/10/0021; GA ČR(CZ) GA15-13766S
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : Historical institutionalism * Family policy * Central Europe
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography
Impact factor: 1.239, year: 2016
The authors combine historical and sociological institutional analysis to show that despite the political and socio-economic transformation in 1990s, the institutional development during and before the communist era provides the best explanation for current hildcare policies in Central Europe. While most authors have concentrated on policy changes that have taken place in the region since 1989, this article concentrates on the historical roots of these policies and shows that today’s policies are highly influenced by a certain dynamics that had already emerged under communist rule. It shows that a historical institutional approach, which analyses the ‘gendered logic of appropriateness’ and policy legacies at various critical junctures, can explain why family policies in Central Europe had already begun to differ during the communist era, why these main differences continue and why even the changes that have taken place follow logically from historical-institutional developments.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0248213
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