Format:
1 online resource (199 pages)
ISBN:
9780230005631
Series Statement:
New Perspectives in German Political Studies
Content:
This book breaks new intellectual ground in the analysis of the German welfare state. Bleses and Seeleib-Kaiser argue that we are witnessing a dual transformation of the welfare state, which is caused by the emergence of new dominating interpretative patterns. Increasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards securing the achieved living standard of former wage earners, which in the past had been the key normative principle of social policy in Germany, while at the same time public support and services for families are expanded.
Content:
Intro -- Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I The Policy Dimension -- 1 Evaluating Policy Change: Some Theoretical and Methodological Remarks -- 2 Historical, Normative and Institutional Foundations of the German Welfare State in the Golden Post-World War II Era -- 3 Socio-economic Developments since the Mid-1970s -- 4 The Changing Normative and Institutional Design of Social Policy -- Part II The Political Dimension -- 5 Theories Explaining Welfare State Change -- 6 Changing Interpretative Patterns -- Part III Conclusions -- 7 Can Germany still be Considered a Conservative Welfare State? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403917843
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781403917843
Language:
English
