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From a Garbage Can to a Compost Model of Decision‐Making? Social Policy Reform and the C zech Government's Reaction to the International Financial Crisis
Author(s) -
Saxonberg Steven,
Sirovátka Tomáš
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/spol.12070
Subject(s) - garbage , government (linguistics) , financial crisis , window of opportunity , order (exchange) , political science , political economy , compost , economics , business , finance , keynesian economics , engineering , philosophy , linguistics , waste management , aerospace engineering
This article argues that the financial crisis did not have a strong impact on C zech social policy. In contrast to the garbage‐can model, in which policymakers wait for a ‘window of opportunity’ to implement radical reforms, the C zech centre‐right parties instead used the crisis as a means of continuing their market‐liberal reforms that they had initiated before the crisis had even begun. Since they had extremely little public support for their reforms, they tried to bring about gradual change. Thus, instead of pulling radical reforms out of the garbage‐can, C zech right‐wing politicians have tended to take out smaller biodegradable goods that can decay and compost into fertile ground in order to sow the seeds of gradual change.