Publication details
When do policies become path dependent? the Czech example
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of European Social Policy |
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| 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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