Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989

by Peter C. Caldwell

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume argues that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of democracy and its relationship to capitalism. These questions were especially important for West Germany, given its recent experience with the collapse of capitalism, the disintegration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198833814
• ISBN13: 9780198833819
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"