Reconciliation Policy in the Czech Republic and the EU: from Neglect to Rejection
| Title in English | Reconciliation Policy in the Czech Republic and the EU: from Neglect to RejectionEuropean |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | European Journal of Social Security |
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| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | reconciliation policy usages of Europe |
| Description | In this paper we focus on the role of Europe in forming reconciliation policies in the Czech Republic from after 1989 until 2009, with emphasis on the period before and after EU accession. We analyze the development of reconciliation policies like caring services, maternity and parental leaves, and support for flexible working regimes, with close eye on the EU’ s influence. Finally we discuss how the Czech case appears as to the world of compliance with the EU. We argue that the compliance with the EU is rather weak: politicians and policy makers have preferred to continue in the pattern of re-familism established mainly during the first transformation period (World of Domestic Politics). When confronted with the increasing pressure of the soft methods of the social OMC, they have refused them (World of Rejection). They have used Europe as a cognitive resource and rarely as legitimating resource, and they have been very selective in searching for those policies compatible with their preferences. |
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