The Politics Of Welfare State Transformation In Germany

Author : Christof Schiller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317227410

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The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany by Christof Schiller Pdf

How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these questions both empirically and theoretically by concentrating on one of the least likely cases for welfare state transformation in Europe. It analyzes in detail how and why institutional change has taken Germany’s welfare state from a conservative towards a new work-first regime. Christof Schiller introduces a novel analytical framework to make sense of the politics of welfare state transformation by providing the missing link: the capacity of the core executive over time. Examining the policy making process in labour market policy in the period between 1980 and 2010, he identifies three different policy making episodes and analyses their interaction with developments and changes in such policy areas as pension policy, family policy, labour law, tax policy and social assistance. The book advances existing efforts aimed at conceptualizing and measuring welfare state change by proposing a clear-cut conceptualization of social policy regime change and introduces a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the welfare-work nexus between 1980 and 2010 in Germany. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of social policy, comparative welfare state reform, welfare politics, government, governance, public policy, German politics, European politics, political economy, sociology and history.

Author : P. Bleses,M. Seeleib-Kaiser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230005631

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The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State by P. Bleses,M. Seeleib-Kaiser Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Bleses
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1403917841

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The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State by Peter Bleses Pdf

After discussing the traditional theories explaining welfare state change and continuity, it is argued that the dual transformation of the German welfare state is primarily caused by the emergence of new dominating interpretative patterns. Without an analysis of the political discourse, social policy change and continuity cannot be sufficiently explained."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : T. Fleckenstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230299344

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Institutions, Ideas and Learning in Welfare State Change by T. Fleckenstein Pdf

Investigates the transformation of German labour market policy, showing that Germany has departed from the conservative-corporatist path of welfare, especially with the Hartz Legislation of the Red-Green government.

Author : Christiane Landsiedel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783638362498

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Restructuring the German Welfare State. Health Care Policy and Reform in Germany by Christiane Landsiedel Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: A, University of Dalarna (Political Sociology), course: Restructuring the Welfare State, language: English, abstract: As health care is among the most personal issues, this is one reason why it is also among the most politically discussed as cost containment has become a priority of health care policy. Health care has consumed a large and growing portion of social spending in all advanced industrialised societies, particularly in the last decade. This cost explosion coincided with the global economic slowdown and worries about the fiscal viability of the welfare state. Reasons for escalating health care costs are, although to varying degrees, common to Western countries. The health care sector provides fertile ground for technological innovations that may prolong life but at considerable expense. Moreover, once these discoveries are made, it is extremely difficult for insurers or governments to limit their provision, as patients demand access to these treatments. Furthermore, the aging population of Western countries has direct consequences for health care because older persons are more likely to be in need of cost intensive treatment and/or care due to acute illness or chronic conditions. At the same time, birth rates are no longer balanced with increasing longevity, so that there will be fewer working age persons in the future to bear the financial requirements for elderly care. Governments and employers claimed that health care costs posed immediate and longterm problems and began to search for ways to address them. The ‘new politics of the welfare state’ – Pierson’s (1996) famous concept, which deals with welfare state reform in the face of changing demographic and tougher economic conditions – has also modified the position of diverse welfare state stakeholders. The actions and preferences of payers and the state are determined by the prevailing health care system as well as by the political system and whether it provides them an opportunity to influence health policies.

Author : Matthias Mayer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783638533898

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The German Welfare State and Globalisation: The Social Construction of Path Dependency by Matthias Mayer Pdf

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - Germany, grade: sehr gut, London School of Economics, language: English, abstract: Economic globalisation seems to have intensified the claims that an extensive national welfare state is no longer sustainable under high exposure to global competition. However, the evidence for significant welfare dismantlement in Germany is missing. In this dissertation, I endeavour to analyse, why globalisation does not seem to have had any significant impact on the German welfare state in terms of serious downwards reform. I contend that the actual impact of economic globalisation on the national welfare state depends a great deal, on how it is interpreted domestically. Hence, I would like to regard the impact of globalisation not only as an exogenous force, but also as a result of what national policy makers, media, electorate, etc. interpret it to entail. In other words, although globalisation really seems to strain existing welfare structures, policy makers still have a considerable scope how to react to these pressures. For my endeavour, I introduce a historical institutionalist framework of path-dependency, which I confront with a social constructivist framework. Prima facie, the path-dependency theorem seems to hold for the German welfare state. However, I claim that a social constructivist angle is able to illuminate how the institutional constraints propagated by the path-dependency thesis can be overcome. Institutional constraints continue to impede welfare reform in German only because the German political elite failed to socially construct the imperative of reform in public discourse, leaving the great majority of the German population unwilling to accept fundamental cutbacks in social benefits. I argue that the Schröder administration attempted to legitimise cutbacks in social services through referring to exogenous pressures of globalisation. In addition, the media discusses the increased need for welfare state reform in the context of globalisation. Although, there seems to be a trend of mounting acceptance of welfare reform among the German population, the general level for support of such measures remains low. I attempt to show that the notion of globalisation on its own appears unable socially construct the public acceptance of serious welfare state reform. Hence, the most likely scenario for the near future of the German welfare state seems the absence of reform until the prolonged economic crisis legitimises significant transformations of the current system.

Author : Bernhard Ebbinghaus,Elias Naumann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319636528

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Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below by Bernhard Ebbinghaus,Elias Naumann Pdf

Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change. It highlights that welfare states are hard pressed to reform in order to cope with ongoing socio-economic and demographic challenges. While public opinion is commonly seen to oppose welfare cuts and organized interests such as trade unions have tended to defend acquired social rights, this book shows that there have been emergent tendencies in favour of reform. Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below analyses a wide range of social policies affecting healthcare, pensions and the labour market to demonstrate how social groups and interest organizations differ and interact in their approaches to reform. Comparing Britain and Germany, with its two very different welfare states, it provides a European perspective on the changing approaches to welfare. This book will be of interest to those wanting to learn more about the politics of the welfare state and of relevance to students and academics in the fields of political economy and comparative social policy.

Author : Nick Ellison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134765706

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The Transformation of Welfare States? by Nick Ellison Pdf

'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.

Author : Manfred G. Schmidt,Gerhard A. Ritter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642225284

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The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State by Manfred G. Schmidt,Gerhard A. Ritter Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the “Social Union”, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990. Schmidt’s analysis of the GDR also depicts commonalities and differences between the welfare state in East and West Germany as well as in other East European and Western countries. He concludes that the GDR was unable to cope with the trade-off between ambitious social policy goals and a deteriorating economic performance. Ritter embeds his analysis of the Social Union in a general study of German unification, its international circumstances and its domestic repercussions (1989-1994). He argues that social policy played a pivotal role in German unification, and that there was no alternative to extending the West German welfare state to the East. Ritter, a distinguished historian, bases his contribution on an award-winning study for which he drew on archival sources and interviews with key actors. Schmidt is a distinguished political scientist.

Author : Philipp Sandermann
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847403388

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The End of Welfare as We Know It? by Philipp Sandermann Pdf

During the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welfare state has already occurred. The authors of this volume hope to contribute to a clearer understanding of how, where and to what extent welfare state settings really have changed since the 1980s. Their work examines questions of change and continuity while exploring various welfare practices in the Western world.

Author : Daniela Keller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783638367080

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Changes of the welfare state in the US and Germany. The notion "citizenship" and the reactions in public by Daniela Keller Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: A, San Diego State University (Sociology), language: English, abstract: In both Germany and the United States, Social Security matters declined in the last decade, be it the money for unemployed people, for pensioners or the tuition for students. In this paper, it should be investigated how the reforms changed the welfare state system, and how the discussions were led in the US and in Germany. By investigating surveys, newspapers and political party programs, I investigate which kind of notion of a citizen lies beyond the debates in these countries. In what kind of social state are people living, what image of a citizen do they have and how are debates about welfare state programs led? Which kind of words and which values are used in the current debates? For this investigation, it will firstly also be explained which theoretical notions of social citizenship and of the welfare state will be taken into consideration for the my investigation.

Author : Peter Taylor-Gooby,Benjamin Leruth,Heejung Chung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198790266

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After Austerity by Peter Taylor-Gooby,Benjamin Leruth,Heejung Chung Pdf

This book examines European welfare states, how and why they are changing, and how they are likely to develop.

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642225222

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Origins of the German Welfare State by Michael Stolleis Pdf

This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provides a perceptive overview of the history of social security and social welfare in Germany from early modern times to the end of World War II, including Bismarck’s pioneering introduction of social insurance in the 1880s. The author unravels “layers” of social security that have piled up in the course of history and, so he argues, still linger in the present-day welfare state. The account begins with the first efforts by public authorities to regulate poverty and then proceeds to the “social question” that arose during the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. World War I had a major impact on the development of social security, both during the war and after, through the exigencies of the war economy, inflation and unemployment. The ruptures as well as the continuities of social policy under National Socialism and World War II are also investigated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:670293983

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Regulating the Social by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sabina Stiller
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789089641861

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Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Reform by Sabina Stiller Pdf

The author of this study argues that key politicians and their policy ideas, through "ideational leadership," have played an important role in the passing of structural reforms in the change-resistant German welfare state.