The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State

by Peter Bleses, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Universität Tübingen

This book breaks new intellectual ground in the analysis of the German welfare state. Peter Bleses and Martin 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403917841
• ISBN13: 9781403917843
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.8"