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When do policies become path dependent? the Czech example

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Authors

SAXONBERG Steven SIROVÁTKA Tomáš JANOUŠKOVÁ Miroslava

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of European Social Policy
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://esp.sagepub.com/content/23/4/437.full.pdf+html
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928713507465
Field Political sciences
Keywords Czech Republic family policy healthcare historical institutionalism incremental change labour market path dependency third order change
Description his article asks the question of why some social policies can be path dependent, while others are not, even if the country goes through what clearly seems to be a ‘critical juncture’ caused by exogenous shocks. We argue that in the Czech Republic labour market policies represent a clear break with the past, while healthcare and family policies have been path dependent to various degrees. There are several reasons. First, during the first years of the transition policymakers gave greater priority to labour market issues. Second, labour market policies were less constrained than the other policy areas, both because the government had to create new institutions in this area rather than rely on old ones and because these new institutions had not yet built up popular support as the old institutions had. Third, labour policy was not as influenced by policy legacies.
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