Workfare Schemes as a Tool For Preventing the Further Impoverishment of the Rural Poor

Keller, Judit; Kovács, Katalin; Rácz, Katalin; Swain, Nigel; Váradi, Mónika Mária

doi:10.1515/eec-2016-0001

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“…The forced early retirement of judges was finally overruled by the European Court of Human Rights. However, some of these policies met general public support and even the most controversial social policy measure, the public works programme, became widely accepted among the lower classes as it provided somewhat better living conditions and a new form of local integration to the unemployed, especially after 2014 (Keller, Rácz, Swain, & Váradi, 2016). The economic recovery after 2010 also helped the government through raising incomes and creating new jobs that counterbalanced and mitigated the effects of the shrinking social allowances.…”

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When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Bartha

Boda

Szikra

2020

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The rise of populist governance throughout the world offers a novel opportunity to study the way in which populist leaders and parties rule. This article conceptualises populist policy making by theoretically addressing the substantive and discursive components of populist policies and the decision-making processes of populist governments. It first reconstructs the implicit ideal type of policy making in liberal democracies based on the mainstream governance and policy making scholarship. Then, taking stock of the recent populism literature, the article elaborates an ideal type of populist policy making along the dimensions of content, procedures and discourses. As an empirical illustration we apply a qualitative congruence analysis to assess the conformity of a genuine case of populist governance, social policy in post-2010 Hungary with the populist policy making ideal type. Concerning the policy content, the article argues that policy heterodoxy, strong willingness to adopt paradigmatic reforms and an excessive responsiveness to majoritarian preferences are distinguishing features of any type of populist policies. Regarding the procedural features populist leaders tend to downplay the role of technocratic expertise, sideline veto-players and implement fast and unpredictable policy changes. Discursively, populist leaders tend to extensively use crisis frames and discursive governance instruments in a Manichean language and a saliently emotional manner that reinforces polarisation in policy positions. Finally, the article suggests that policy making patterns in Hungarian social policy between 2010 and 2018 have been largely congruent with the ideal type of populist policy making.

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When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Bartha

Boda

Szikra

2020

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“… Hungarian public‐employment programs in their current form are a kind of workfare system (Asztalos Morell ; Keller et al ; Szőke ; Váradi ). Longfield’s public‐employment programme has been implemented in a relatively humane way; it organises a variety of jobs to generate value for the community and the individual, which may help participants maintain their self‐esteem, or at least provide them with an opportunity to escape feelings of uselessness and humiliation. …”

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Trapped in the Past? The Reproduction of Poverty and Marginality in a Hungarian Manorial Village

Németh

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article is an examination of the (re)‐production of poverty and marginality among former manorial servants and their descendants in a Hungarian manorial village. Manorial servants were a large subgroup of the agrarian proletariat in interwar Hungary; their long‐term, rural poverty – sometimes conceptualised as ‘traditional’ – has been aggravated by territorial stigmatisation and represents a specific case even within the context of rural poverty. However, the manorial settlement examined here (now the village of ‘Longfield’) is an extreme case given that a highly successful large‐scale farm has remained in the locality despite a long series of social, political, and economic changes. The presence of this farm influenced both this locality’s developmental path and its room for economic manoeuvring, as well as local people’s living strategies and life chances. The empirical basis for this analysis is a collection of 34 family‐history interviews conducted in ‘Longfield’. This article encompasses the continuities and discontinuities both in people’s narratives and in social and economic structures, and is thus an investigation of the dynamic relationships between and among lived poverty, perceptions of territorial stigmatisation which shape local living strategies, and intra‐ and intergenerational patterns of social and spatial (im)mobility.

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“…Similarly to other post-socialist countries, the transition period of 1989-1990 was characterized by a rapid increase in the regionalization of wealth and deprivation. The increase of regional disparities was associated with the increasing dominance of Budapest, the capital city, as well as the widening gap between urban and rural areas, and the declining economic performance of the old industrial regions (Blazek and Netrdov a 2011; Keller et al 2016) such as Northern Hungary. Due to deindustrialization, which began in the early 1990s, industrial activities in Borsod-Aba uj-Zempl en County, situated in Northern Hungary, significantly decreased and the number of jobs fell significantly.…”

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“…To this day, Borsod-Aba uj-Zempl en County is characterized by unemployment and poverty (Keller et al 2016) as well as a low ability to retain its population. This is due to the lack of viable economic prospects and the adverse income position of the inhabitants (G Fekete et al 2013).…”

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Perception of the reasons for living in poverty in Hungary

Nándori¹

2021

HStud

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The question of what are considered the causes of poverty is often neglected in the literature of this area of research. This paper analyzes the attributes of poverty in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary, which is one of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Research was carried out in 2011 and 2019 using the method of systematic data collection, making possible the comparison of the changing perceptions of poverty over time. The research objective is to discover whether, as is common in Eastern European countries, support for explanations which blame structural conditions is dominant in the public perception of poverty. This research has made it clear, that the poor are often considered by the public to be responsible for their own vulnerable situation. With regard to the area where the research took place there is a discrepancy between reality and the public perception of poverty and the functioning of the welfare system which is thought to be generous and which is considered to offer multiple types of public aid for a wide range of recipients.

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Workfare Schemes as a Tool For Preventing the Further Impoverishment of the Rural Poor

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Trapped in the Past? The Reproduction of Poverty and Marginality in a Hungarian Manorial Village

Perception of the reasons for living in poverty in Hungary

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