The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State

by Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Peter Bleses, M. Seeleib-Kaiser

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134951375X
• ISBN13: 9781349513758
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"