Tomasz Inglot
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomasz Inglot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomasz |
| FAMILY NAME | Inglot |
| SIGNATURE | INGLOT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Minnesota State University, Mankato |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6307-5948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Letters
Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, 1945-2020
"Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on "mother-orientation" in Poland, "family orientation" in Hungary, and "child-orientation" in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and …
Central and Eastern European Countries
This chapter discusses welfare state developments in eleven countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that have joined the European Union since 2004. It addresses historical, socioeconomic, and political contexts, with reference to theoretical questions involving typologies, clustering, and patterns of convergence in social policies. It analyses diversity in welfare provision that we can observe not only within the region, but also in Europe …
The Triumph of Novelty over Experience? Social Policy Responses to Demographic Crises in Hungary and Poland since EU Enlargement
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. During the past two decades, many European countries, including Germany, Italy, and Spain in the west, and Poland and Hungary in the east, encountered prolonged demographic crises. These challenges first became evident in the late 1990s as fertility rates declined rapidly, much…
Introduction: Politics and Current Challenges of Demography in Central and Eastern Europe
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. In this article, we introduce a multidisciplinary and multimethod, special section on the intersection of politics, policy, and the current challenges of demography in Hungary and Poland. We argue that aging, declining fertility, and migration as well as their politicization al…
Social Policy and the New Middle Class in Central and Eastern Europe
“The region has seen a radical shift from widespread unemployment to labor shortages, a historic expansion in higher-education opportunities, and unprecedented mass migration to the West.” Seventh in a series on social mobility around the world
Path‐dependency versus Reform in Pensions and Family Policy Re‐examined: Dual Trajectories of the Polish Welfare State since the 1990s
Many studies of the welfare state in Poland underestimate continuity in pension policy and overlook evidence of change in family policy. I argue that each of these policies evolves historically along dual trajectories. One trajectory represents a set of constantly reproduced and politically reinforced norms and structures, and the other exemplifies cyclical, emergency adjustments and innovations, enabling incremental and cumulative change that ma…
Western welfare states watched from the East during the Cold War: Condemnation, Competition, and Creative Learning
This paper examines international influences of the Western welfare state on social policy ideas, institutions and reforms in the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Paradoxically, first the explicit and later more implicit rejection of the Western welfare state, including the social-democratic and various “third way” models, eventually led to the rise of neoliberal and anti-welfare attitudes among many Eastern social policy reformers during the las…
Reforming Post-Communist Welfare States: Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania Since 2000
Changes to family policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania since they joined the European Union reveal a rich web of domestic and international influences that has benefited working middle-class families, sometimes at the expense of the poor
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia: Adaptation and Reform of the Post-Communist ‘Emergency Welfare States’
The investigation of post-communist social policies has centred on two general topics: a possible emergence of a new type of welfare state regime in the former Soviet bloc and the search for the major determinants of social policy development and reform in the region. Many scholars have recommended the designation of a separate regime type to distinguish between Western and Eastern systems of welfare protection (Müller et al., 1999; Aidukaite, 20…
Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919–2004
A comparative-historical study of welfare states in the former communist region of East Central Europe. Inglot analyzes almost one hundred years of expansion of social insurance programs across different political regimes. He places these programs in a larger political and socioeconomic context, which includes the most recent developments since the advent of democracy. Based on this research, he argues that despite apparent similarities the welfa…
Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919–2004
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Between High Politics and Civil Society. Polish Trade Unions in the Process of Democratization after 1989
Throughout the 1980s, Polish trade unions generated enormous interest among researchers as a vivid example of the power and influence of mass social movements in politics. Following the reemergence of Solidarity and the downfall of the communist regime in 1989, the focus of attention has shifted. Analyses of elite choices and strategies, rather than studies of social groups and organizations, have begun to dominate the scholarship on postcommunis…
The politics of social policy reform in post-communist Poland: Government responses to the social insurance crisis during 1989–1993
Most analyses of post-communist transitions have paid little attention to the contemporary political and economic problems of social insurance reform in Eastern and Central Europe. Contrary to early predictions of many observers, the official embrace of free market liberalism by the new political elites in Poland during 1989–1993 did not lead to radical cuts in social spending across the board. Instead, the continuation of old policy patterns and…
Ethnic Political Power in a Machine City: Chicago's Poles at Rainbow's End
Machine politics in Chicago has been described as a successful example of exchange theory in which political party members received benefits in return for loyalty to the party. In 1988, Erie rejected the rainbow theory of machine politics, arguing that the Irish received the lion's share of political benefits while other white-ethnic groups, such as Poles, were given limited and often symbolic rewards. These authors show that Chicago's Poles were…
Award Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Reforming Post-Communist Welfare States: Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania Since 2000
Changes to family policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania since they joined the European Union reveal a rich web of domestic and international influences that has benefited working middle-class families, sometimes at the expense of the poor
The politics of social policy reform in post-communist Poland: Government responses to the social insurance crisis during 1989–1993
Most analyses of post-communist transitions have paid little attention to the contemporary political and economic problems of social insurance reform in Eastern and Central Europe. Contrary to early predictions of many observers, the official embrace of free market liberalism by the new political elites in Poland during 1989–1993 did not lead to radical cuts in social spending across the board. Instead, the continuation of old policy patterns and…
Path‐dependency versus Reform in Pensions and Family Policy Re‐examined: Dual Trajectories of the Polish Welfare State since the 1990s
Many studies of the welfare state in Poland underestimate continuity in pension policy and overlook evidence of change in family policy. I argue that each of these policies evolves historically along dual trajectories. One trajectory represents a set of constantly reproduced and politically reinforced norms and structures, and the other exemplifies cyclical, emergency adjustments and innovations, enabling incremental and cumulative change that ma…
The Triumph of Novelty over Experience? Social Policy Responses to Demographic Crises in Hungary and Poland since EU Enlargement
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. During the past two decades, many European countries, including Germany, Italy, and Spain in the west, and Poland and Hungary in the east, encountered prolonged demographic crises. These challenges first became evident in the late 1990s as fertility rates declined rapidly, much…
Introduction: Politics and Current Challenges of Demography in Central and Eastern Europe
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. In this article, we introduce a multidisciplinary and multimethod, special section on the intersection of politics, policy, and the current challenges of demography in Hungary and Poland. We argue that aging, declining fertility, and migration as well as their politicization al…
Western welfare states watched from the East during the Cold War: Condemnation, Competition, and Creative Learning
This paper examines international influences of the Western welfare state on social policy ideas, institutions and reforms in the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Paradoxically, first the explicit and later more implicit rejection of the Western welfare state, including the social-democratic and various “third way” models, eventually led to the rise of neoliberal and anti-welfare attitudes among many Eastern social policy reformers during the las…
Ethnic Political Power in a Machine City: Chicago's Poles at Rainbow's End
Machine politics in Chicago has been described as a successful example of exchange theory in which political party members received benefits in return for loyalty to the party. In 1988, Erie rejected the rainbow theory of machine politics, arguing that the Irish received the lion's share of political benefits while other white-ethnic groups, such as Poles, were given limited and often symbolic rewards. These authors show that Chicago's Poles were…
Award Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The politics of social policy reform in post-communist Poland: Government responses to the social insurance crisis during 1989–1993
Most analyses of post-communist transitions have paid little attention to the contemporary political and economic problems of social insurance reform in Eastern and Central Europe. Contrary to early predictions of many observers, the official embrace of free market liberalism by the new political elites in Poland during 1989–1993 did not lead to radical cuts in social spending across the board. Instead, the continuation of old policy patterns and…
Between High Politics and Civil Society. Polish Trade Unions in the Process of Democratization after 1989
Throughout the 1980s, Polish trade unions generated enormous interest among researchers as a vivid example of the power and influence of mass social movements in politics. Following the reemergence of Solidarity and the downfall of the communist regime in 1989, the focus of attention has shifted. Analyses of elite choices and strategies, rather than studies of social groups and organizations, have begun to dominate the scholarship on postcommunis…
Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919–2004
A comparative-historical study of welfare states in the former communist region of East Central Europe. Inglot analyzes almost one hundred years of expansion of social insurance programs across different political regimes. He places these programs in a larger political and socioeconomic context, which includes the most recent developments since the advent of democracy. Based on this research, he argues that despite apparent similarities the welfa…
Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919–2004
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia: Adaptation and Reform of the Post-Communist ‘Emergency Welfare States’
The investigation of post-communist social policies has centred on two general topics: a possible emergence of a new type of welfare state regime in the former Soviet bloc and the search for the major determinants of social policy development and reform in the region. Many scholars have recommended the designation of a separate regime type to distinguish between Western and Eastern systems of welfare protection (Müller et al., 1999; Aidukaite, 20…
Reforming Post-Communist Welfare States: Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania Since 2000
Changes to family policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania since they joined the European Union reveal a rich web of domestic and international influences that has benefited working middle-class families, sometimes at the expense of the poor
Western welfare states watched from the East during the Cold War: Condemnation, Competition, and Creative Learning
This paper examines international influences of the Western welfare state on social policy ideas, institutions and reforms in the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Paradoxically, first the explicit and later more implicit rejection of the Western welfare state, including the social-democratic and various “third way” models, eventually led to the rise of neoliberal and anti-welfare attitudes among many Eastern social policy reformers during the las…
Path‐dependency versus Reform in Pensions and Family Policy Re‐examined: Dual Trajectories of the Polish Welfare State since the 1990s
Many studies of the welfare state in Poland underestimate continuity in pension policy and overlook evidence of change in family policy. I argue that each of these policies evolves historically along dual trajectories. One trajectory represents a set of constantly reproduced and politically reinforced norms and structures, and the other exemplifies cyclical, emergency adjustments and innovations, enabling incremental and cumulative change that ma…
Social Policy and the New Middle Class in Central and Eastern Europe
“The region has seen a radical shift from widespread unemployment to labor shortages, a historic expansion in higher-education opportunities, and unprecedented mass migration to the West.” Seventh in a series on social mobility around the world
The Triumph of Novelty over Experience? Social Policy Responses to Demographic Crises in Hungary and Poland since EU Enlargement
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. During the past two decades, many European countries, including Germany, Italy, and Spain in the west, and Poland and Hungary in the east, encountered prolonged demographic crises. These challenges first became evident in the late 1990s as fertility rates declined rapidly, much…
Introduction: Politics and Current Challenges of Demography in Central and Eastern Europe
This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. In this article, we introduce a multidisciplinary and multimethod, special section on the intersection of politics, policy, and the current challenges of demography in Hungary and Poland. We argue that aging, declining fertility, and migration as well as their politicization al…
Central and Eastern European Countries
This chapter discusses welfare state developments in eleven countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that have joined the European Union since 2004. It addresses historical, socioeconomic, and political contexts, with reference to theoretical questions involving typologies, clustering, and patterns of convergence in social policies. It analyses diversity in welfare provision that we can observe not only within the region, but also in Europe …
Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, 1945-2020
"Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on "mother-orientation" in Poland, "family orientation" in Hungary, and "child-orientation" in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and …
Letters
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Communism (6 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Social policy (6 works) · Welfare state (6 works)