Aidukaite Jolanta, Saxonberg Steven, Szelewa Dorota, Szikra Dorottya
Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences The Institute of Sociology Vilnius Lithuania.
Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia.
Soc Policy Adm. 2021 Mar;55(2):358-373. doi: 10.1111/spol.12704. Epub 2021 Jan 26.
This article documents and compares the social policies that the governments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) implemented to combat the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. Our findings show that governments in all four countries reacted to the COVID-19 crisis by providing extensive protection for jobs and enterprises. Differences arise when it comes to solidaristic policy responses to care for the most vulnerable population, in which CEE countries show great variation. We find that social policy responses to the first wave of COVID-19 have largely depended on precious social policy trajectories as well as the political situation of the country during the pandemic.
本文通过聚焦匈牙利、立陶宛、波兰和斯洛伐克，记录并比较了中东欧（CEE）国家政府为抗击第一波新冠疫情而实施的社会政策。我们的研究结果表明，这四个国家的政府都通过为就业和企业提供广泛保护来应对新冠疫情危机。在针对最弱势群体的团结政策回应方面存在差异，中东欧国家在这方面表现出很大的不同。我们发现，对第一波新冠疫情的社会政策回应在很大程度上取决于先前的社会政策轨迹以及疫情期间该国的政治状况。
