La réforme sociale tchéque después 1989: principes et réalitéDie tschechische Sozialreform nach 1989: Konzept und WirklichkeitLa reforma social checa después de 1989: conceptos y realidad Potůček M.International Social Security Review, Vol. 54, No. 2-3, 2001, pp. 81-105Revue Internationale de Sécurité Sociale, Vol. 54, No. 2-3, 2001, pp. 95-121Internationale Revue für Soziale Sicherheit , Vol. 54,…
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Ten Years After: Civil Society and the Third Sector in Central and Eastern Europe
Potůček M.Voluntas, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2000Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers Editorial
The Uneasy Birth of the Czech Civil Society
Potůček M.Voluntas, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2000Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers Abstract: This paper analyzes both the political discourse and the reality of Czech civil society. It describes how the concept of civil society has emerged in a difficult ideological context, and sets out how policy towards it has developed, also highlighting its economic role….
Havel versus Klaus: Public Policy Making in the Czech Republic
Havel versus Klaus: Public Policy Making in the Czech Republic Potůček M.Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1999, pp. 163-176Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: In Central and Eastern Europe, we can observe and analyze an ongoing social experiment euphemized as “the process of the transformation of totalitarian countries with centrally planned economies into…
Splitting Welfare State: the Czech and Slovak Cases
Potůček M., Radičová I. Social Research, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 1605-1643 Abstract: The split of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992 and the establishment of the two independent states saw the creation of a sort of a natural social experiment. How strong is the heritage and how long is the institutional path-dependency…
EU accession and social policy: the case of the Czech Republic
Potůček M. Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2004 SAGE Publications All articles of special issue on Enlargement, Europeanization and Social Policy can be downloaded here. Abstract: This paper assesses the place of the EU accession among the determinant of the changes taking place in the Czech social policy after 1989. Compulsory…