Politics of the Debtfare State : Repoliticizing the Czech Debt Enforcement Order and Its Limits
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08969205221104177" target="_blank" >10.1177/08969205221104177</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Politics of the Debtfare State : Repoliticizing the Czech Debt Enforcement Order and Its Limits
Original language description
In Czechia, one of the statistically most equal and least indebted states, almost one-tenth of its (mostly low-income) population is entrapped in debt enforcement proceedings. I foreground such a contradiction to investigate the politics of the debtfare state in East-Central Europe (ECE). This nuances the scholarship on the repolitization of the ECE neoliberal state by populist forces and their instrumentalization of its middle-class welfare state strategies in the 2010s. Identifying the Czech debt enforcement industry as a leading poverty industry in ECE, I explore its depoliticizing origins in the Debt Enforcement Order (DEO), a flagship legal framework regulating the creditor–debtor–bailiff relations. Interpreting the political struggle over the DEO-centered debtfare state strategy, I then trace its limited repolitization since the mid-2010s, which redirects its reforms from their original pro-creditor and -bailiff prioritization to a prioritization of low-income debtors. This politics complements the repolitization of the neoliberal state beyond populism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
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
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Critical Sociology
ISSN
0896-9205
e-ISSN
1569-1632
Volume of the periodical
49
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4-5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
829-845
UT code for WoS article
000812003600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85131868559