scholarly journals Is the Czech Republic a Welfare State?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Christiana Kliková ◽  
Boris Navrátil
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract Is the Czech Republic a welfare state? This question is to be answered through this article, whose purpose is to classify Czechia into one of the types of the welfare state. The introduction of the article describes the creation of the welfare state and the main factors influencing its origin. The article also describes the characteristic features of the welfare state and presents its typology. The section entitled “The Czech Republic and the welfare state” expounds on the constituent stages of development of the Czech social policy until the present day. The article concludes with the comparison of some aggregate indicators and characteristics of social policies found in Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom with similar indicators from the Czech Republic; this basis forms the assignment of the Czech Republic to one of the types of the welfare state.

scholarly journals Generational conflict, consumption and the ageing welfare state in the United Kingdom

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1439-1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL HIGGS ◽  
CHRIS GILLEARD
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Generational Conflict ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Viability ◽  
Working Out ◽  
The Welfare State

ABSTRACTThe British welfare state is over 60 years old. Those who were born, grew up and who are now growing old within its ambit are a distinctive generation. They have enjoyed healthier childhoods with better education than previous populations living in Britain. That they have done well under the welfare state is accepted, but some critics have argued that these advantages are at the expense of younger cohorts. The very success of this ‘welfare generation’ is perceived as undermining the future viability of the welfare state, and some argue that the current levels of income and wealth enjoyed by older cohorts can only be sustained by cutbacks in entitlements for younger cohorts. This will lead to a growing ‘generational fracture’ over welfare policy. This paper challenges this position, arguing that both younger and older groups find themselves working out their circumstances in conditions determined more by the contingencies of the market than by social policy.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger E. Backhouse ◽  
Bradley W. Bateman ◽  
Tamotsu Nishizawa ◽  
Dieter Plehwe
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Provision ◽  
Economic Argument ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Origin ◽  
Welfare Discourse ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Welfare State

During the last several decades, the welfare state has come under increasing pressure around the world, with social provision often being cut or privatized. Often the justification for these changes has been made as an economic argument, especially a neoliberal argument that the welfare state diminishes growth or produces disincentives to work. These arguments are of relatively recent origin, however; many types of economists have supported the creation of the welfare state, even liberal economists. The purpose of this book is to examine the economic arguments that have been used in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany in support of, and in opposition to, the welfare state. Special attention is paid to the transnational dimensions of recent welfare discourse and to the ways that liberal and neoliberal arguments about the welfare state have changed over time.

scholarly journals Government-Voluntary Sector Compacts Reconsidered

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Welfare State

AbstractAs the articles in this special issue demonstrate, the emergence of government-voluntary sector compacts around the world is intimately linked to comprehensive transformations the welfare state is undergoing in many countries. The fact that the first compact was developed in England is significant; since the early 20th century, the development of the welfare state in many societies has been significantly influenced by the ideas coming from policymakers, scholars and advocates in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals What Are the Most Important Factors Influencing Springtail Tetrodontophora bielanensis?

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 858
Author(s):  
Strahinja Mladenović ◽  
Jan Materna ◽  
Tereza Brestovanská ◽  
Jakub Horák
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Soil Layers ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Landscape Level

The springtail, Tetrodontophora bielanensis, dwells in the litter and upper soil layers. This arthropod mainly inhabits humid litter and soil and prefers a cold climate. We determined the main factors influencing this springtail in forests at the landscape level in Krkonoše and site level in Orlické hory in the Czech Republic. We used passive trunk-tree traps. These traps are highly effective for sampling flightless fauna. We used 128 traps in Krkonoše and 17 traps in Orlické hory. The springtail was significantly positively influenced by the presence of Norway spruce (Picea abies) at the landscape level. Springtails’ abundance was, furthermore, influenced by the spatial distribution of the sampling sites. The negative influence of bark coverage and the presence of fungi, and positive influence of an increasing dimension of trees were significant at the site level. We argue for a more diversified management of mountainous forests with respect to forest history. This appears to be also important for mountainous forests in protected areas.

scholarly journals The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Rauh ◽  
Jan Schwalbach
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Meta Data ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Text Corpora

ParlSpeech V2 contains complete full-text vectors of more than 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, covering periods between 21 and 32 years. Meta-data include information on date, speaker, party, and partially agenda item under which a speech was held. This release note provides a more detailed guide to the data.

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