Gender and Post-socialist Welfare States in Central Eastern Europe: Family Policy Reforms in Poland and the Czech Republic Compared

2006 ◽  
pp. 68-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Steinhilber
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Eastern

Overheating is among risks for Central-Eastern Europe

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
Economic Outlook

Subject The economic outlook for the five leading CEE economies. Significance First-quarter GDP outturns in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) were mixed. While Poland and Hungary surprised on the upside, the pace of economic expansion was less robust in the Czech Republic and Romania. After a strong cyclical upswing in GDP last year, economic growth appears to have peaked in the first quarter and economic growth is likely to moderate in 2018. Impacts In 2018, Romania, Slovakia and Poland will grow the fastest; the Czech Republic and Hungary will grow less robustly. With some economies managing to absorb EU funds at a faster pace than others, growth patterns are expected to diverge further. In Poland and Hungary, monetary conditions are expected to remain ultra-loose until at least end-2018. Weaker GDP growth rates are expected next year, particularly in the absence of structural reforms to tackle labour shortages.

Two types of presidentialization in the party politics of Central Eastern Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vít Hloušek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
The One ◽  
Governmental Politics

IntroduzioneCentral Eastern European party politics offers a good example of the trend towards centralizing internal party decision making, as well as encouraging strong personalities in the role of party leader. This trend is visible in all three major spheres of party activity: election campaigning, the internal organization of parties, and governmental politics. This paper focusses on the party systems of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia to demonstrate that there are actually two processes of presidentialization that occur in party politics. On the one hand, the role of the leader is gaining importance in more traditional, well-established parties such as the Civic and Social Democrats in the Czech Republic and Fidesz in Hungary. On the other hand, perhaps an even clearer presidentialization process is evident in the emergence of new protest parties focussed around strong personalities that often make no attempt to establish and maintain a more complex internal party organization.

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