Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context

Kuitto, Kati

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“…In addition, policy-makers in the post-communist countries deliberately used social policies to prevent public protest against the reforms [e.g. Offe 1996;Vanhuysse 2006] and developed the various types of hybrid welfare regimes that are in place today which combine liberal policies with conservative-Bismarckian and socialdemocratic universalist policies [Cerami 2006;Inglot 2008;Hemerijck 2013;Kuitto 2016].…”

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confidence: 99%

Support for Market Economy Principles in European Post-communist Countries during 1999-2008

Sirovátka¹,

Guzi²,

Saxonberg³

2019

Czech Sociological Review

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Support for Market Economy Principles in European Post-communist Countries during 1999-2008

Sirovátka¹,

Guzi²,

Saxonberg³

2019

Czech Sociological Review

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“…Komparativní studie potvrdily, že všechny postkomunistické státy vydávají v úhrnu menší podíl hrubého domácího produktu (HDP) na veřejnou sociální péči v porovnání s většinou zemí bývalé západní Evropy [Kuitto 2016]. Zúžíme-li však úhel pohledu pouze na podporu péče o nejmenší děti, částky věnované na tuto oblast nejsou o tolik nižší, liší se však jejich struktura.…”

Section: Státní Podpora Rodičovské Péče a Formální Péče O Předškolní unclassified

Family Policy and Formal and Informal Care for Preschool-Age Children in Selected European Countries

Kuchařová¹,

Nešporová

2019

Czech Sociological Review

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The article focuses on the use of childcare for preschool-age children in 13 European countries with different models of maternal employment. Employing a comparative approach it relates care arrangements to family policy measures. Childcare policies and practices in post-communist countries (the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) are compared in a wider European context and specifically to various countries representing the principal types of welfare state and family policy strategies in Europe (the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden). The article focuses on parental leave schemes, parental employment, and formal childcare and takes into account informal childcare, which in many countries is crucial to achieving a work-life balance. The authors' findings reveal that the use of informal childcare is not directly related to either the length of paid parental leave or maternal employment. Informal childcare, which in most cases is provided by grandparents, is used on a weekly basis for at least thirty per cent of preschool-age children in all the post-communist countries studied except Bulgaria. However, similarly high levels of informal childcare were also found in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Austria. Gendered moral rationalities based on cultural norms play an important role in division of childcare in each European state.

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“…A more recent example is provided by Kati Kuitto (2016) who carried out a comparative statistical analysis of European countries, including ten CEE EU-member countries, 2 across three dimensions of welfare provision: first, in terms of the organisational principles of welfare provision (that is, whether welfare provision was financed mainly from social contributions collected from employers and employees along the lines of a Bismarckian approach, or whether welfare was financed mainly from tax revenue along Beveridgean lines); second, welfare policy emphasis (whether welfare support was targeted towards cash spending on specific categories such as old age pensions and sickness benefits, or towards social services); and third, decommodifying potential (the degree of generosity of support that effectively compensates for loss of income from labour or other markets).…”

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Bifurcation, Stratification and Informality in Post-Socialist Welfare Regimes

Cox¹

2018

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The essay assesses the work of Júlia Szalai on the concept of the bifurcated welfare state as a contribution to the debate on welfare regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. It locates her work in the context of the debate around Esping-Andersen’s ideal types of welfare state regimes and sees the bifurcated welfare state as offering a means of understanding the key features of hybrid welfare states in East Central Europe. The essay then examines evidence in support of the concept and explores possible ways in which the idea may contribute to the research agenda on welfare regimes.

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Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context

Cited by 61 publications

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Support for Market Economy Principles in European Post-communist Countries during 1999-2008

Support for Market Economy Principles in European Post-communist Countries during 1999-2008

Family Policy and Formal and Informal Care for Preschool-Age Children in Selected European Countries

Bifurcation, Stratification and Informality in Post-Socialist Welfare Regimes

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