Cristina Raţ
Biographic Data
| ID | 4462072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Raţ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Raţ |
| SIGNATURE | RAŢ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8647-460X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between Supportive and Equal Parenting: Exploring Middle‐Class Fathering in Romania Today
The profound restructuring that Romania underwent in the last decades of post‐socialist transformations and EU accession and membership has brought along changes in family life, including fathers’ involvement in parental responsibilities. Today, family arrangements incorporate gender equality values but also opposition to them, alongside an uneven revival of certain conservative norms. Drawing upon a relational approach that analyses the interpla…
Social Minima and the Guaranteed Minimum Income Program in Romania, 1995-2024
The present paper provides a qualitative historical analysis of the evolution of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) program in Romania between 1995 and 2024 in relation to envisaged social minima. It argues that the transformations of GMI reflect the interplay between demand for cheap labour, regulations over precarious employment, and behavioural control for allegedly securing the “employability” of beneficiaries, with little (if any) concern f…
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 …
Racialized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism
Family policies and social inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe: A comparative analysis of Hungary, Poland and Romania between 2005 and 2015
In this chapter Raț and Szikra aim to contribute to the growing literature on family policy transformations by scrutinizing three less-studied post-communist countries marked by considerable inequalities. At the time of their accession to the European Union, Hungary, Poland and Romania revealed different models of ‘familialism’, largely rooted in their divergent historical development, despite some similarities induced by the communist regime. Du…
Racialized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism
The Romanian Welfare State at Times of Crisis
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
Romanian Roma, State Transfers, and Poverty: A Study of Relative Disadvantage
This article investigates the effectiveness of policy measures aimed to combat poverty in the case of the Roma from Romania, and addresses the extent to which social transfers reach the Roma and alleviate their relatively disadvantageous situation. The first part presents the main points of the current European agenda concerning the situation of the Roma, and their influence on Romanian social policy design. The second part employs survey data in…
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
Romanian Roma, State Transfers, and Poverty: A Study of Relative Disadvantage
This article investigates the effectiveness of policy measures aimed to combat poverty in the case of the Roma from Romania, and addresses the extent to which social transfers reach the Roma and alleviate their relatively disadvantageous situation. The first part presents the main points of the current European agenda concerning the situation of the Roma, and their influence on Romanian social policy design. The second part employs survey data in…
Between Supportive and Equal Parenting: Exploring Middle‐Class Fathering in Romania Today
The profound restructuring that Romania underwent in the last decades of post‐socialist transformations and EU accession and membership has brought along changes in family life, including fathers’ involvement in parental responsibilities. Today, family arrangements incorporate gender equality values but also opposition to them, alongside an uneven revival of certain conservative norms. Drawing upon a relational approach that analyses the interpla…
Romanian Roma, State Transfers, and Poverty: A Study of Relative Disadvantage
This article investigates the effectiveness of policy measures aimed to combat poverty in the case of the Roma from Romania, and addresses the extent to which social transfers reach the Roma and alleviate their relatively disadvantageous situation. The first part presents the main points of the current European agenda concerning the situation of the Roma, and their influence on Romanian social policy design. The second part employs survey data in…
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 Romanian Welfare State at Times of Crisis
Family policies and social inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe: A comparative analysis of Hungary, Poland and Romania between 2005 and 2015
In this chapter Raț and Szikra aim to contribute to the growing literature on family policy transformations by scrutinizing three less-studied post-communist countries marked by considerable inequalities. At the time of their accession to the European Union, Hungary, Poland and Romania revealed different models of ‘familialism’, largely rooted in their divergent historical development, despite some similarities induced by the communist regime. Du…
Racialized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism
Racialized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism
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 …
Between Supportive and Equal Parenting: Exploring Middle‐Class Fathering in Romania Today
The profound restructuring that Romania underwent in the last decades of post‐socialist transformations and EU accession and membership has brought along changes in family life, including fathers’ involvement in parental responsibilities. Today, family arrangements incorporate gender equality values but also opposition to them, alongside an uneven revival of certain conservative norms. Drawing upon a relational approach that analyses the interpla…
Social Minima and the Guaranteed Minimum Income Program in Romania, 1995-2024
The present paper provides a qualitative historical analysis of the evolution of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) program in Romania between 1995 and 2024 in relation to envisaged social minima. It argues that the transformations of GMI reflect the interplay between demand for cheap labour, regulations over precarious employment, and behavioural control for allegedly securing the “employability” of beneficiaries, with little (if any) concern f…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Welfare (3 works) · Welfare state (3 works) · Accession (2 works) · Communism (2 works)