CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Kozma, Balint |
|---|---|
| Title | Familisation, Ideology, and Populism: Investigating Reform-making Patterns in Central- European Family Policy Trajectories |
| Summary | This Thesis presents (1) two country profiles on the politics of family policy by applying de-familisation to parties rather than regimes, and (2) a cross-case comparison between latest populist policymakers that have followed oddly similar agendas irrespective of their countries’ divergent policy histories. In essence, it finds that the ideological battles in the earlier years of transition fit well into the standard model of right-vs-left welfare politics; however, this changed when the parties that scholarship now calls populists (e.g., Fenger 2007; Fischer 2020; Orenstein and Bugarič 2020) entered into power with oddly similar, but as compared to their respective countries, quite distinctive agendas. This partly supports the theses put forward by Orenstein and Bugaric that in contemporary Hungary and Poland what is happening is the emergence of a traditionalist “fatherland” (2020). Although I must make my reservations based on the data since there have been some significant—yet admittedly insufficient—steps towards work- life reconciliation. |
| Supervisor | Anil Duman |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/kozma_balint.pdf |
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