Crisis? What crisis? Social policy when crises are and are not crises in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F24%3A00139358" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/24:00139358 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.13004" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.13004</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.13004" target="_blank" >10.1111/spol.13004</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Crisis? What crisis? Social policy when crises are and are not crises in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia
Original language description
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, when objectively it would be hard to argue empirically that there really was a crisis. At other times, according to objective criteria, there is ample evidence that there is indeed a crisis, but the government tries to deny it for political reasons. Despite differences in objective conditions and differences in political constellations, none of the policymakers in the three countries took advantage of the windows of opportunity that the alleged crises presented to carry out path-changing social policy? changes. Instead, the changes we rather small and usually only temporary; thus, showing the importance of path dependency even during crisis situations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50602 - Public administration

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-18316S" target="_blank" >GA22-18316S: Threat or Opportunity for the Welfare State? Social Policy in Central Europe under the Shadow of COVID-19</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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