Social policy in East Central Europe: Major trends in the twentieth century

Dorottya Szikra, Béla Tomka

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East Central European countries and post-Soviet states have a common communist legacy, because of which they are looked at as countries with markedly different political and welfare cultures compared to ‘Western’ capitalist democracies.1 The difference in the historical legacy has caused many authors to group these countries into one category of ‘post-Soviet’ or ‘post-communist’ states. The systematic analysis of the commonalities and differences of their welfare history has only started recently (Inglot, 2003, 2008; Tomka, 2003, 2005; Cerami, 2006), but these studies have mainly neglected the history of family policies in the region. Recent development of family policies and gender have attracted considerable attention (Pascall and Kwak, 2005, Fodor et al., 2002; Szelewa and Polakowski, 2008) but the historical roots of current family policies is a new field to be explored.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPost-Communist Welfare Pathways
Subtitle of host publicationTheorizing Social Policy Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe
EditorsAlfio Cerami, Pieter Vanhuysse
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages17-34
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9780230245808
ISBN (Print)9780230230262, 9781349311293
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

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