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The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State / by Peter Bleses, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Online-Ressource (xii, 192 p) : ill

Englisch

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978-0-230-00563-1

978-1-349-51375-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Springer eBook Collection

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/9780230005631

JN1-JN9692.2

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bicssc: JP ; bicssc: 1D ; bisacsh: POL058000

LOC-SH: Political economy ; European Union ; Political science ; Europe -- Politics and government ; Welfare state ; Social service ; International economic relations.

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