@inbook{9227e7ff93d74477afea0c4b97d93618,
title = "Leave policies in populist and illiberal regimes: The cases of Hungary and Poland",
abstract = "The chapter compares policy changes in Hungary and Poland, two countries with the electoral victories of the right-wing populist parties during the 2010s. The goals of this study are twofold: 1) to provide a comparative overview of parenting leave policies of the two countries and 2) to analyse the politics of parenting leave reforms of populist and illiberal political regimes. Although family policies have been in the centre of their governance, they have not introduced paradigmatic changes to parenting leaves. Still, these schemes should be viewed as contributing to overall family policy change and related discursive framing. Common features of these policies include weak incentives for fathers to use a part of the leave and their bifurcated character. The countries slightly differ when it comes to their policy goals: while demographic growth and support for middle-class parents prevail in Hungary, Polish government is also focused on eradicating poverty.",
author = "Dorota Szelewa and Dorottya Szikra",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "9",
doi = "10.4337/9781800372214.00017",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781800372207",
series = "Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.",
pages = "99--113",
editor = "Ivana Dobroti{\'c} and Sonja Blum and Alison Koslowski",
booktitle = "Research Handbook on Leave Policy",
}