Gender and State in Post-communist Societies: Introduction
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Abstract
This issue focuses on gender, state, and society and the dynamics of change in the post-communist era. Like other variants of historical institutionalism, welfare regime theory has stressed the path-dependent character of change but admits the possibility that “major shocks” may open new trajectories. As Esping-Andersen (1996, p. 27) himself recognized, the stresses and strains of transition have rendered Post-communist Societies a veritable “laboratory of experimentation.” A key question is what has been the direction of change? Have these post-communist states favoured neo-liberalism, bringing in train the commodification of women similar to the pattern found in Canada and the United States, or have they been drawn to the more egalitarian gender regime emergent in the European Union (MacRae 2006)? There is a third possibility—variously labeled maternalism (Glass and Fodor), re-familialization (Saxonberg and Szelewa), or neo-familialism (Teplova)—all of which entail inducement for women to embrace the role of domestic caregiver. All the essays in this volume reject the notion that there is one single post-communist model. Instead they offer an opportunity for a more nuanced assessment via comparison of the past and present of several Post-communist Societies—Russia (Teplova; Johnson), Poland (Glass and Fodor; Saxonberg and Szelewa), the Czech Republic (Saxonberg and Szelewa), Hungary (Glass and Fodor), the Ukraine, Moldava and Armenia (Johnson). While Teplova, Glass and Fodor, and Saxonberg and Szelewa, all discern a clear trend toward maternalism/re-familialization, a clear distinction is drawn between Poland, which has adopted a liberal path (without any of the positive consequences for women found in liberal countries) while Russia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic have attempted to forge their own versions of a conservative neo-familial regime. While neither variant advances gender equality, Teplova and Saxonberg and Szelewa suggest that there are real limits to these attempts at re-familialization. Johnson's four country analysis of policies to combat violence against women offers an even more optimistic view of the prospects for a successful feminist politics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".