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Hungary’s punitive turn

The shift from welfare to workfare

Bibliographic Data

ID6181192
AuthorsZsuzsanna Vidra (0000-0001-8125-3154, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume51
Issue1
Pages73-80
Publication date2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1016/j.postcomstud.2018.01.008
OpenAlexW2793463064
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited14

The Hungarian post-communist welfare state was created under the neoliberal influence of international organisations while retaining lots of elements of solidarity. The growing social tensions in the mid-2000s due to a second economic crisis in the new millennium led first the left then the right wing governments to shift the post-communist welfare state into a punitive type of workfare system. The article concludes that the political populism of the mid-2000s leading to an undemocratic governance by the 2010s better explains this paradigm shift than e as many authors argue — the neoliberal influence frame

Austerity · Communism · Corporate governance · Economic governance · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Punitive damages · Solidarity · State (computer science) · Welfare · Welfare state · Workfare · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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Citation span2019 - 2026 (8)
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