Path dependency and partisan interests: explaining COVID-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe

Toplišek, Alen; Oellerich, Nils; Simons, Jasper P.; Eihmanis, Edgars

doi:10.1080/21599165.2022.2122046

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“…Unfortunately, this process led to a sharp fragmentation of agricultural areas, resulting in low yields, which still persists today, as the number of farms stands at around 2.4 million (MACK et al, 2018) (Figure 1). , 2021;RAZVANTA, 2020;DINU et al 2020;TOPLIŠEK et al 2022;POPOVICI et al 2018;STERIE et al 2022;CONSTANTIN et al 2015;IBĂNESCU et al 2018.…”

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“…As time went by, the economy recovered, receiving a major shock in 2020 with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures imposed by the authorities on the movement of people, especially in urban centres, led to the migration of the urban population to peri-urban areas, constrained by these measures (TOPLIŠEK et al, 2022;POPOVICI et al, 2018) (Figure 1).…”

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“…Figure 1 -Chronology of the main events influencing the rural population. Source: Own processing after: STANCIU, 2019; MACK et al 2018; MIHAI & MINEA, 2021; RAZVANTADINU et al 2020;TOPLIŠEK et al 2022;POPOVICI et al 2018;STERIE et al 2022;CONSTANTIN et al 2015;IBĂNESCU et al 2018. …”

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Political events upon the Romania rural population using VAR model

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Sterie,

Dragomir

2024

Cienc. Rural

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Maintaining a rural-urban balance is absolutely necessary in the context of the challenges related to food security and environmental protection as well as the perspectives of urban agglomeration. This paper highlighted the impact of the main events from the last 30 years on the rural population. This study used the vector autoregressive model (VAR) to investigate the estimates and analyse the dynamic impact of innovations on the system of variables. Key issues that influenced certain periods in the analyzed interval were highlighted, which clearly show the impact on the analyzed variables using variance decomposition. The cost of living in rural areas is increasing, so more and more inhabitants give up growing certain crops or raising certain animals, thus having to search for food to survive, leading to additional wage income to cover these costs.

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Political events upon the Romania rural population using VAR model

Dumitru,

Sterie,

Dragomir

2024

Cienc. Rural

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“…Three years later, however, with the pandemic still present but apparently past its momentum, the views have become much more nuanced and balanced. The existing studies suggest that the role of social dialogue in managing pandemic crisis has been path-dependent: the countries with traditions of social partnership cooperation made use of social dialogue more extensively than those with more fragmented industrial relations (Ebbinghaus and Weishaupt, 2022a;Meardi and Tassinari, 2022;Topli sek et al, 2022). Simultaneously, there are counterarguments that the pandemic emergency served as a booster for a renewed social partnership, even in the countries in which it had eroded in prepandemic periods (Brandl, 2023).…”

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The nail in the coffin? Pandemic and social dialogue in Poland

Czarzasty

Mrozowicki

2023

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PurposeIn the context of debates on the role of social partners in shaping anti-crisis policies, the article explores the developments of social dialogue in Poland following the outbreak of the pandemic. The central research question is whether the crisis has helped to revitalise social dialogue or has it further revealed its weaknesses that were apparent before it.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on the combination of literature review and the analysis of primary data derived from 22 expert interviews with the representatives of trade unions, employers and ministries collected in 2020–2021 in four essential industries (education, health care, social care and logistics).FindingsThe analysis suggests that the pandemic led to reinforcement of “illusory corporatism” in Poland, deepened mistrust among social partners and triggered a shift to informal channels of influencing policymaking. The weakness of the social partners and the strong position of the right-wing populist government meant that fears of recession and a health crisis were insufficient to develop “crisis” corporatism. While business interests were represented better than labour in policymaking, limited labour-friendly outcomes have been achieved as a result of workers’ mobilisation and unilateral decisions of the government rather than tripartite social dialogue.Originality/valueBased on original empirical research, the article contributes to the discussion on the impact of the crisis on social dialogue under patchwork capitalism. It points to the role of strong governments and informality in circumventing tripartite structures and the importance of essential workers’ mobilisation in response to the lack of social dialogue.

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