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Gender and post-socialist welfare states in central eastern europe
Steinhilber, Silke
Steinhilber, Silke
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"Both Poland and the Czech Republic faced the “competing demands of building capitalism and democracy” at the beginning of the 1990s (Orenstein 2001: 6). Yet both countries responded somewhat differently: Poland chose a rapid and radical economic transformation strategy - “shock therapy”. In the Czech Republic, on the other hand, a mix of neoliberal and social democratic elements of reforms was combined into a “social liberal strategy of reform” (Orenstein 2001: 7). Both countries also followed different reform paths in the field of social policy. During the 1990s Poland moved further than other post-socialist countries in the direction of a residualist and familial model of a welfare state, scaling down state involvement in the provision of social protection, and promoting individual responsibility and - de-facto, if not always explicitly - greater reliance on the family for the provision of wellbeing.2 Reforms in the Czech Republic also revoked important elements of the inherited universalist tradition of welfare-state provisioning. On the whole, however, Czech legislative discourses on social policy continued to refer more explicitly to social solidarity. A higher level of state involvement as well as a greater commitment to state-sponsored income redistribution was maintained."(pg 3)
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2005-05
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