Steven Saxonberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 154223 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven Saxonberg |
| PRENOMES | Steven |
| SOBRENOME | Saxonberg |
| ASSINATURA | SAXONBERG S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6057-2762 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 272 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
“Honor Thy Father”
This article shows how we can use the sociology of emotions approach in combination with theories of masculinity and opportunity structures to explain the development of Czech fathers’ rights organizations and why they originally tended to be aggressive and engage in sometimes violent protest actions rather than act like professionalized NGOs. While much has been written about post-communist women’s movements, much less has been written about pos…
From sex work to post-sexual labour
This paper examines how professional dominatrices in the Czech Republic construct symbolic boundaries in their online profiles in relation to other forms of sex work and how they sometimes construct BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism) services as separate (post-sexual) practices that differ from traditional sex work. It focuses on the online self-presentation of women providing paid professional BDSM services …
Involved Fatherhood as Interpreted by Czech Men’s Organizations
Drawing on the discourse on masculinities, this article explores the positions of Czech men’s organizations related to childcare. Recently, there has been growing attention to the idea of involved fatherhood; we show that one Czech men’s organization has indeed developed a caring masculinity that aligns well with the notion of involved fatherhood. The other organizations, by contrast, have expressed strong anti‐feminist sentiments, blaming women …
Back to the Closet or Out in the Street
This contribution explores the nuanced relationship between the existing political landscape and the types of activities within the Czech Republic and Slovakia BDSM community. The political situation in both countries has a common history as Czechia and Slovakia previously comprised one country. However, in recent years, the political context in both countries has undergone significant transformations in different directions, impacting various as…
Some Useful Sources
The following is a list of learning and research resources on topics that are central to this themed section, namely the male-breadwinner and adult worker models, and their alternatives; intersectionality; the views of employers and workplace culture; the role and influence of informal care; and the tendency toward dualisation
Dealing With Covid-19 in Czechia
The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves throughout the world. Even though the Czech Republic has less stable state structures and a less consolidated party system than its West European counterparts, during the first wave, the country actually performed better than most West European countries in terms of infection rates, death rates, and economic growth. During the second wave, however, the country’s position radically dropped. Despite its increas…
Using the Intersectional Approach to Social Policy to Investigate the Adult Worker Model
Abstarct In this thematic issue, the authors explore family policies in seven different countries: Hungary, Hong Kong, Lithuania, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, and the UK. A common theme is that in analysing these policies, we need to take into account more than gender, but rather we need to also consider issues such as class, poverty, religion, and the use of migrant workers. Thus, these countries have all been moving away from the traditional male b…
Populists dealing with experts and policy legacies
The Covid‐19 pandemic presented an unusually complex challenge, particularly in the areas of social and health policy. A comparative analysis of policymaking during this emergency situation can help us better understand the factors influencing social policy development. Czechia and Slovakia make for a good comparison in determining what factors influenced social policy and health policy during the COVID pandemic. Since they previously formed the …
Analyzing the fight for decency
This article shows how two separate traditions of social movement studies can be combined to better understand the dynamics of collective action. It does so by integrating frame analysis with the emotional approach to social movements. It does so in studying the nationwide protests that took place in Slovakia in 2018, which forced the prime minister to resign. For frames to resonate with the public, they need to play on emotions. Although some sc…
Framing in the Authoritarian Context
When do CSOs succeed in influencing policy when working under one-party regimes? This article compares two cases in which Environmental CSOs (ECSOs) in China tried to influence policies. This article argues that the difference between success and failure is connected to the types of frames that the organizations use and how well these frames can link to meta-cultural master frames. Most studies have concentrated on how activists apply frames to g…
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties
In recent decades, populist parties and leaders have obtained great political success. Since populism plays on voter dissatisfaction with the political elite, we might expect that dissatisfaction with the welfare state should also play a role. In this study, we suggest measures to assess welfare state performance (WSP), and we examine how assessment of WSP helps to explain support for the populist political parties – both rightwing and leftwing. …
Crisis? What crisis? Social policy when crises are and are not crises in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia
In this article, we analyse how different governments have dealt with situations, labelled as ‘crises’ in the international and national discourses. More specifically, we analyse how the Czech, Hungarian and Slovak governments framed and dealt with their social policies during the 2008 ‘financial crisis’, the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’, and the 2020 ‘Covid crisis’. We argue that sometimes governments and the mass media frame the situation as a crisis,…
Emergency welfare states in action
This article analyses the developments of the welfare state's reaction to the pandemic in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia during 2020–2022, asking whether the changes in social policy represent only temporary responses to the challenges of the pandemic, or if the changes will likely lead to long‐run transformative changes in social policies. All three countries applied emergency adaptive changes to some extent except for job protection, as the shor…
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study
This article begins by discussing some of the main approaches that have emerged to gender and family policy, before proceeding to discuss more modern trends. It begins by discussing institutional approaches, such as the male-breadwinner model, defamilialisation, degenderisation. Then it discusses cultural approaches, such as the national ideals of care, gendered moral rationalities, and Hakim’s preference theory. Then this article continues by br…
The central European world of fatherhood policies
Here is the shorter abstract: Following Rush's suggestion to explore differences across cultures, our study compares the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Appyling Rush's discussion of how individual attitudes function as mediators, we analyse how attitudes mediate the norm of threeness. We interviewed 79 parents in both countries and our results show that despite the cultural differences between the countries, there is great support for the norm of t…
Populism and Growing Welfare State Agenda
Although previous studies show that welfare policies are important for populist voters, few studies have analysed in depth the social policy proposals of different types of populist parties. Since the Czech Republic is one of the few countries with a strong centrist-populist party that has been in power, this article concentrates on the Czech case and compares this centrist-populist party to the largest right-wing populist party and the main non-…
Generations of BDSM Czech style
Recently, there has been a “research boom” on the topic of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism). Studies have covered a wide range of countries including the UK, USA, Brazil and Western Germany. Nevertheless, ethnographical research of the BDSM subculture in a postcommunist state has been extremely rare. In fact, there have not been many studies on postcommunist subcultures in general. This study explores how the BDSM subculture has b…
Introduction to the special issue on “The role of experts in developing social policies
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic
This article analyzes the interplay between policymakers and scientists in developing the Family Policy Plan for the Czech Republic in 2017. As former members of the government commission that developed the plan, we base the article on participatory observation. When we joined the commission, a ‘window of opportunity’ had opened as the country for the first time ever had feminist‐friendly minister and vice‐minister of labour and social affairs. W…
Filling the Demand Gap
This article argues that a new type of populism is emerging that combines entrepreneurial populism with centrist populism and takes as an example the success of the Czech party ANO and its leader Andrej Babiš. Entrepreneurial populist leaders are businesspeople who claim that because they have been successful in running a business, they can run a government efficiently, like a business. Entrepreneurial populists lack a coherent ideology and inste…
Semi-civil society
Much has been written about civil society’s role in transforming communist regimes; however, scholars have largely ignored the officially sanctioned organizations. Yet, when political openings arise, official organizations evolve into ‘semi-civil society and play an important role in bringing down communist-led regimes. When a reformist regime begins opening up, semi-civil society turns to the regime and pressures it to reach make farther-reachin…
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic
This article documents and compares the social policies that the governments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) implemented to combat the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic by focusing on Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. Our findings show that governments in all four countries reacted to the COVID‐19 crisis by providing extensive protection for jobs and enterprises. Differences arise when it comes to solidaristic policy responses to care fo…
The effect of radical right fringe parties on main parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Do radical right fringe parties affect main parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? Using data from the Manifesto Project, we analyze the relationship between radical right fringe parties’ and main parties’ policy programs regarding sociocultural issues in six post-communist countries of CEE. Even though radical right fringe parties have participated in government in several of these countries, and in Hungary a fringe party has become the co…
Dilemmas of a subculture
Recently, much has been written in the mass media about the novel and film Fifty Shades of Grey. It was widely portrayed as an example of BDSM (a common abbreviation for the terms bondage, discipline, dominance, submissivity, sadism and masochism) subculture and used as a symbol of sadomasochistic identity. But is this public view based on the self image of BDSM subcultural members or is it a figment of the imagination of writers and journalists?…
Gendering Family Policies in Post-Communist Europe
1. Introduction 2. The Transition in Central Europe Revisited 3. Historical-Institutional Development 4. The Influence of International Organizations 5. Institutional Framework 6. Attitudes of the Population 7. Strategies and Political Opportunities for Women's Organizations 8. Political Parties and Policy-Makers 9. Conclusion
From Defamilialization to Degenderization
This article discusses the debate on gendering welfare states. It criticizes typologies based on the differentiation between degrees of familialization and defamilialization and proposes a new typology based on the notion of genderization and degenderization. It also argues against the notion of regime types, which includes outputs in their classification systems. Instead it argues that typologies should concentrate on policies to make it possibl…
Failing family policy in post-communist Central Europe
This article examines the developments of family policies in four post-communist countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary). A general tendency has emerged of implementing familist, gendered policies that encourage women to leave the labor market to raise children. The interplay of the ideological, economic and institutional legacy of the communist past with new economic, social and political conditions coupled with shifts in va…
The Continuing Legacy of the Communist Legacy? The development of family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic
This article compares family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic in order to explain why the two countries have different policies. Previous studies are right to claim that post-communist family policies are basically going in a refamilialist direction that gives mothers a greater incentive to return to the home, but they tend to neglect the important differences that exist between countries. Although previous studies were correct to emphas…
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic
This article documents and compares the social policies that the governments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) implemented to combat the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic by focusing on Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. Our findings show that governments in all four countries reacted to the COVID‐19 crisis by providing extensive protection for jobs and enterprises. Differences arise when it comes to solidaristic policy responses to care fo…
Satisfaction with democracy and perceived performance of the welfare state in Europe
This article tests several hypotheses for explaining the link between welfare-state performance and satisfaction with democracy. In conducting our multilevel analysis, we combine data from the European Social Survey 2012 special module on democracy with data on contextual and institutional conditions, including those on welfare-state regimes. Our results show that a discrepancy between desired policy goals and perceived policy outcomes in connect…
Women in East European Parliaments
One of the major questions in the consolidation of the new democracies in Eastern Europe is whether women, who comprise half of the population, will participate fully in all aspects of the political process, including voting, organizing, joining political parties, and getting elected to local and national office. One key test of the extent of women's participation in East European politics is their representation in parliament. Parliaments are a …
When do policies become path dependent? the Czech example
This article asks the question of why some social policies can be path dependent, while others are not, even if the country goes through what clearly seems to be a ‘critical juncture’ caused by exogenous shocks. We argue that in the Czech Republic labour market policies represent a clear break with the past, while healthcare and family policies have been path dependent to various degrees. There are several reasons. First, during the first years o…
Filling the Demand Gap
This article argues that a new type of populism is emerging that combines entrepreneurial populism with centrist populism and takes as an example the success of the Czech party ANO and its leader Andrej Babiš. Entrepreneurial populist leaders are businesspeople who claim that because they have been successful in running a business, they can run a government efficiently, like a business. Entrepreneurial populists lack a coherent ideology and inste…
The effect of radical right fringe parties on main parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Do radical right fringe parties affect main parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? Using data from the Manifesto Project, we analyze the relationship between radical right fringe parties’ and main parties’ policy programs regarding sociocultural issues in six post-communist countries of CEE. Even though radical right fringe parties have participated in government in several of these countries, and in Hungary a fringe party has become the co…
The Revenge of History – The Institutional Roots of Post‐Communist Family Policy in the C zech R epublic, H ungary and P oland
The authors combine historical and sociological institutional analysis to show that despite the political and socio‐economic transformation in 1990s, the institutional development during and before the communist era provides the best explanation for current childcare policies in C entral E urope. While most authors have concentrated on policy changes that have taken place in the region since 1989, this article concentrates on the historical roots…
Neo‐liberalism by Decay? The Evolution of the Czech Welfare State
In this article we analyse the evolution of the Czech welfare state and we examine the factors explaining its path. We show that although the Czech welfare regime exhibits a ‘mixed profile’ that includes conservative and universalist elements, it is increasingly moving in a more liberal, residualist direction – not because of conscious steps but rather through decay. Governments have often zig‐zagged in their policies and resorted to symbolic ref…
Strategies of Contentious Action
This article compares the contemporary Czech and Polish women's movements and demonstrates that there are significant differences in their strategies. While the Polish women's movement is more active in mobilizing the population and uses both transactional and participatory strategies in order to achieve its goals, the Czech women's movement focuses more on transactional activities, such as lobbying, setting up cooperation with national and inter…
From a Garbage Can to a Compost Model of Decision‐Making? Social Policy Reform and the C zech Government's Reaction to the International Financial Crisis
This article argues that the financial crisis did not have a strong impact on C zech social policy. In contrast to the garbage‐can model, in which policymakers wait for a ‘window of opportunity’ to implement radical reforms, the C zech centre‐right parties instead used the crisis as a means of continuing their market‐liberal reforms that they had initiated before the crisis had even begun. Since they had extremely little public support for their …
Beyond the Transitology–Area Studies Debate
A combination of area studies and comparative social science approaches leads to rich studies of the transition to democracy
Eastern Europe a Decade Later
Eastern Europe a Decade LaterA New Phase in Czech Politics Steven Saxonberg (bio) Recent developments in the Czech Republic have led some Czechs to fear that their young democracy is in danger. This contrasts sharply with the atmosphere during the first half of the 1990s, when Czechs were proud to live in the country that was considered the region's model for transformation to democracy and a market economy. During the "velvet revolution" of 1989…
The State as a Norm‐Builder? The Take‐up of Parental Leave in Norway and Sweden
This study shows that although Norway and Sweden have rather similar family policies, the seemingly small differences that exist reflect different national ideals of care, and these differences encourage parents to employ different gendered moral rationalities. However, Sweden's ideal of ‘equal‐sharing/professional care’, encourages fathers to take longer leaves than the Norwegian ideal of ‘partial sharing plus choosing between professional or pa…
Klezmer in Kraków
Research Article| October 01 2006 Klezmer in Kraków: Kitsch, or Catharsis for Poles? Steven Saxonberg; Steven Saxonberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Magdalena Waligórska Magdalena Waligórska Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (3): 433–451. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174469 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation…
Václav Klaus
Framing in the Authoritarian Context
When do CSOs succeed in influencing policy when working under one-party regimes? This article compares two cases in which Environmental CSOs (ECSOs) in China tried to influence policies. This article argues that the difference between success and failure is connected to the types of frames that the organizations use and how well these frames can link to meta-cultural master frames. Most studies have concentrated on how activists apply frames to g…
Emergency welfare states in action
This article analyses the developments of the welfare state's reaction to the pandemic in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia during 2020–2022, asking whether the changes in social policy represent only temporary responses to the challenges of the pandemic, or if the changes will likely lead to long‐run transformative changes in social policies. All three countries applied emergency adaptive changes to some extent except for job protection, as the shor…
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic
This article analyzes the interplay between policymakers and scientists in developing the Family Policy Plan for the Czech Republic in 2017. As former members of the government commission that developed the plan, we base the article on participatory observation. When we joined the commission, a ‘window of opportunity’ had opened as the country for the first time ever had feminist‐friendly minister and vice‐minister of labour and social affairs. W…
The central European world of fatherhood policies
Here is the shorter abstract: Following Rush's suggestion to explore differences across cultures, our study compares the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Appyling Rush's discussion of how individual attitudes function as mediators, we analyse how attitudes mediate the norm of threeness. We interviewed 79 parents in both countries and our results show that despite the cultural differences between the countries, there is great support for the norm of t…
The Indirect Future Influence of the EU on Post‐communist Family Policy
Theorists of E uropeanization expected the EU to have the greatest influence on post‐communist countries during the period of negotiation to join the EU as the EU had the greatest possibilities of pressuring the post‐communist countries to make reforms before they joined, on the grounds that it could threaten to prevent these countries from joining unless they met certain conditions. However, in the case of family policy, the EU had very little d…
Introduction
Introduction : A new look at social movements and civil society in postcommunist Russia and Poland
Re-familisation of the Czech Family Policy and its Causes
In this paper we analyse the shift of family related policies (benefits, daycare services and labour market policies) from the state-socialist model toward re-familisation in the Czech Republic after 1989. We demonstrate that the policies negatively influence the possibilities for parents—and especially mothers—to balance work and family life. We concentrate on the question of why the government implemented such policies, despite their negative c…
Václav Klaus
The 'Velvet Revolution' and the Limits of Rational Choice Models
This article examines the limitations of two rational choice models in explaining the 'Velvet Revolution' in Czechoslovakia. The article is partially based on interviews with former student leaders and Civic Forum activists carried out in the springs of 1992 and 1993. Two important conclusions are, firstly, that in non-violent revolutions like the one that occurred in Czechoslovakia, the main collective action problem for political entrepreneurs …
Eastern Europe a Decade Later
Eastern Europe a Decade LaterA New Phase in Czech Politics Steven Saxonberg (bio) Recent developments in the Czech Republic have led some Czechs to fear that their young democracy is in danger. This contrasts sharply with the atmosphere during the first half of the 1990s, when Czechs were proud to live in the country that was considered the region's model for transformation to democracy and a market economy. During the "velvet revolution" of 1989…
Regime Behavior in 1989
The events of 1989 did not unfold exactly as democratization theory predicts. A nuanced consideration of conditions in specific countries and the proclivities of their leaders helps fine-tune the script for democratic transition
Polish Women in the mid-1990s
This article discusses Polish attitudes toward gender in the early-to mid-1990s. It shows that during this period, Poles on the average had 'Christian democratic values', although there were no Christian democratic parties in parliament during this period. The majority of Poles supported some type of 'social market economy', while maintaining traditional views toward gender roles and moral issues. Polish women on the average, though, were clearly…
Women in East European Parliaments
One of the major questions in the consolidation of the new democracies in Eastern Europe is whether women, who comprise half of the population, will participate fully in all aspects of the political process, including voting, organizing, joining political parties, and getting elected to local and national office. One key test of the extent of women's participation in East European politics is their representation in parliament. Parliaments are a …
The Revolutions of 1989
Elites after State Socialism
[Review of] John Highly & Gyorgy Lengyel (eds.), Elites after State Socialism: Theories and Analysis
The Influence of Presidential Systems
Institutions, not individuals, explain the diverging paths of political leadership in Poland and the Czech Republic
Beyond the Transitology–Area Studies Debate
A combination of area studies and comparative social science approaches leads to rich studies of the transition to democracy
Does Transition Matter
This article compares the socio-economic determinants of welfare attitudes in the Czech Republic to those in Sweden, using survey data from the 1996 ISSP survey ‘The Role of Governments’. Many theorists of the transition have claimed that the post-communist countries have a different political dynamic that their west European neighbors. For example, David Ost claims that that citizens of post-communist countries during the 1990s were not sure of …
Failing family policy in post-communist Central Europe
This article examines the developments of family policies in four post-communist countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary). A general tendency has emerged of implementing familist, gendered policies that encourage women to leave the labor market to raise children. The interplay of the ideological, economic and institutional legacy of the communist past with new economic, social and political conditions coupled with shifts in va…
Seeking the Balance Between Work and Family After Communism
During the 1990s the Central-European governments all took steps in varyingdegrees toward implementing more conservative, re-familization policies, which support women in their roles as mothers and make it more difficult for them to remain in the labor market. This article discusses the relationship between gender attitudes and gender policy in Central Europe and the latest changes in both. We focus on two countries, Catholic Poland, and the secu…
Klezmer in Kraków
Research Article| October 01 2006 Klezmer in Kraków: Kitsch, or Catharsis for Poles? Steven Saxonberg; Steven Saxonberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Magdalena Waligórska Magdalena Waligórska Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (3): 433–451. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174469 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation…
The Continuing Legacy of the Communist Legacy? The development of family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic
This article compares family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic in order to explain why the two countries have different policies. Previous studies are right to claim that post-communist family policies are basically going in a refamilialist direction that gives mothers a greater incentive to return to the home, but they tend to neglect the important differences that exist between countries. Although previous studies were correct to emphas…
Re-familisation of the Czech Family Policy and its Causes
In this paper we analyse the shift of family related policies (benefits, daycare services and labour market policies) from the state-socialist model toward re-familisation in the Czech Republic after 1989. We demonstrate that the policies negatively influence the possibilities for parents—and especially mothers—to balance work and family life. We concentrate on the question of why the government implemented such policies, despite their negative c…
Neo‐liberalism by Decay? The Evolution of the Czech Welfare State
In this article we analyse the evolution of the Czech welfare state and we examine the factors explaining its path. We show that although the Czech welfare regime exhibits a ‘mixed profile’ that includes conservative and universalist elements, it is increasingly moving in a more liberal, residualist direction – not because of conscious steps but rather through decay. Governments have often zig‐zagged in their policies and resorted to symbolic ref…
Freedom of Choice through the Promotion of Gender Equality
This article argues that policies that promote gender equality actually also increase freedom of choice. Thus, despite the neo‐liberal criticism that welfare policies limit choices and privatization and market solutions increase freedom of choice, this article concludes that market‐liberal welfare regimes offer less choice than the Nordic type of social‐democratic welfare regimes, which have openly striven to promote gender equality. They do so b…
Introduction
Introduction : A new look at social movements and civil society in postcommunist Russia and Poland
When do policies become path dependent? the Czech example
This article asks the question of why some social policies can be path dependent, while others are not, even if the country goes through what clearly seems to be a ‘critical juncture’ caused by exogenous shocks. We argue that in the Czech Republic labour market policies represent a clear break with the past, while healthcare and family policies have been path dependent to various degrees. There are several reasons. First, during the first years o…
From Defamilialization to Degenderization
This article discusses the debate on gendering welfare states. It criticizes typologies based on the differentiation between degrees of familialization and defamilialization and proposes a new typology based on the notion of genderization and degenderization. It also argues against the notion of regime types, which includes outputs in their classification systems. Instead it argues that typologies should concentrate on policies to make it possibl…
Gendering Family Policies in Post-Communist Europe
Through the use of a historical-institutional perspective and with particular reference to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; this study explores the state of family policies in Post-Co
Strategies of Contentious Action
This article compares the contemporary Czech and Polish women's movements and demonstrates that there are significant differences in their strategies. While the Polish women's movement is more active in mobilizing the population and uses both transactional and participatory strategies in order to achieve its goals, the Czech women's movement focuses more on transactional activities, such as lobbying, setting up cooperation with national and inter…
From a Garbage Can to a Compost Model of Decision‐Making? Social Policy Reform and the C zech Government's Reaction to the International Financial Crisis
This article argues that the financial crisis did not have a strong impact on C zech social policy. In contrast to the garbage‐can model, in which policymakers wait for a ‘window of opportunity’ to implement radical reforms, the C zech centre‐right parties instead used the crisis as a means of continuing their market‐liberal reforms that they had initiated before the crisis had even begun. Since they had extremely little public support for their …
Social Movements in Post-Communist Europe and Russia
1. Introduction: A new look at social movements and civil society in post-communist Russia and Poland 2. Disciplining the 'Second World': The Relationship between Transnational and Local Forces in Contemporary Hungarian Women's Social Movements 3. Does the EU help or hinder gay-rights movements in post-communist Europe? The case of Poland 4. Fragmentation of the collective action space: the animal rights movement in Poland 5. The diffusion of pub…
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