SAXONBERG, Steven and Hana HAŠKOVÁ. The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Social Policy and Administration. Blackwell, 2016, vol. 50, No 5, p. 559-579. ISSN 0144-5596. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12129.
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Original name The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
Authors SAXONBERG, Steven (752 Sweden, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Hana HAŠKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic).
Edition Social Policy and Administration, Blackwell, 2016, 0144-5596.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50601 Political science
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 1.239
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14230/16:00090986
Organization unit Faculty of Social Studies
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12129
UT WoS 000385714700004
Keywords in English Historical institutionalism Family policy Central Europe Childcare Parental leave
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Abstract
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 childcare 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
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