Tensions in Family Policies in Post-Communist Central Europe

SAXONBERG, Steven. Tensions in Family Policies in Post-Communist Central Europe. In Care between Work and Welfare in European Societies. UK: Palgrave, 2011, p. 52-78. Neuviden. ISBN 0-230-29129-5.

Basic information

• Original name: Tensions in Family Policies in Post-Communist Central Europe
• Authors: SAXONBERG, Steven (752 Sweden, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: UK, Care between Work and Welfare in European Societies, p. 52-78, 27 pp. Neuviden, 2011.
• Publisher: Palgrave

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• 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
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/11:00049437
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 0-230-29129-5
• UT WoS: 000294430500005
• Keywords in English: family policy; Central Europe; tensions; daycare
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

During the era of communist rule several different types of tensions arose. Despite differences in policies, these tensions were very similar for Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, because they still had some important institutional similarities (long extended mother leaves, the decision to move nurseries for children under three to the ministries of health, and incomes policies that encouraged mother parents to work despite the existence of longer extended leaves, and the absence of father leaves). These tensions arose between several systems.

Links

• GA403/09/1182, research and development project: Name: Pomsta historie? Zkoumání historických kořenů péče o děti, zdravotní péče a péče o seniory v České republice

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, The Revenge of History? An Examination of the Historical Roots of Childcare, Healthcare and Elderly Care Policies in the

• IAA700280901, research and development project: Name: Instituce, mýty a přesvědčení: Zkoumání vlivu path-dependency na soudobé diskurzy péče o děti v České republice, Švédsku a Francii

Investor: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institutions, Myths and Beliefs: An Investigation of the Influence of Path Dependency on the Contemporary Discourses on Childcare in the Czech Republic, Sweden and France