The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic

by Edward Ross Dickinson

The model of the development of child welfare policy presented here illuminates the complexity of the struggles from which modern social policy emerged, and accounts for the ways in which similar policies could be adapted to changing political systems--monarchical, republican, or fascist. Following a period of policy innovation, rapid institutional expansion, and intensifying ideological conflict before the First World War, Dickinson shows, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674688627
• ISBN13: 9780674688629
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"