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The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State: The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German Unification (1989-1994): German Social Policy, cartea 4

Autor Manfred G. Schmidt, Gerhard A. Ritter
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the “Social Union”, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990. Schmidt’s analysis of the GDR also depicts commonalities and differences between the welfare state in East and West Germany as well as in other East European and Western countries. He concludes that the GDR was unable to cope with the trade-off between ambitious social policy goals and a deteriorating economic performance. Ritter embeds his analysis of the Social Union in a general study of German unification, its international circumstances and its domestic repercussions (1989-1994). He argues that social policy played a pivotal role in German unification, and that there was no alternative to extending the West German welfare state to the East. Ritter, a distinguished historian, bases his contribution on an award-winning study for which he drew on archival sources and interviews with key actors. Schmidt is a distinguished political scientist.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783642447037
ISBN-10: 3642447031
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: XVI, 308 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:2013
Editura: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Colecția Springer
Seria German Social Policy

Locul publicării:Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany

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Cuprins

L. Leisering: Introduction.- M. G. Schmidt: Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic: Introduction.- "Socialist Social Policy".- The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR.- The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime.- The Welfare State as Political Process: From Ulbricht to Honecker to German Unification.- Outcomes of Social Policies.- The GDR in Comparative Perspective: A Socialist Work and Welfare State.- Continuity and Discontinuity in GDR Social Policy.- G. A. Ritter: The Politics of German Unification - Social, Economic, Financial Constitutional and International Issues: Introduction.- The International Context of German Unification.- Social Policy in the Process of Unification.- The Economic, Financial and Constitutional Problems of Unification.

Notă biografică

Manfred G. Schmidt is Professor for Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. He has widely published on European and international politics. He was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for International Comparative Research and the Leibniz Prize.
Gerhard A. Ritter is Professor emeritus for Social History at the University of Munich. He studied history and political science in Berlin and Oxford. He has been awarded honorary doctorates and prizes for his studies in German and comparative history.
Lutz Leisering, the Editor, is Professor for Social Policy and Director at the Institute for World Society studies, University of Bielefeld. He took his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics. He has published widely on European and global social policy.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

The book is part of the 5-volume series “German Social Policy”, a unique multidisciplinary approach to the history of German social policy written by the doyens of their respective disciplines. The volumes expound the contribution of the German tradition to the rise of social policy in the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Germany pioneered modern social policy in the 19th century when Bismarck introduced social insurance. After the Second World War, Germany’s Social Market Economy became a model of social integration. The volumes cover the history of ideas (volume 1), the legal and political history before and after 1945 (volumes 2 and 3), the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and the impact of German reunification (1990) (volume 4). Volume 5 embeds the German case in a major comparative study of European welfare states, complemented by a study of the USA and the Soviet Union. The volumes also yield insights into general theoretical issues of social policy beyond the empirical case of Germany. Each volume has an introduction by the editor who summarizes the contribution made by the volumes and looks into the future of German social policy.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the “Social Union”, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990. Schmidt’s analysis of the GDR also depicts commonalities and differences between the welfare state in East and West Germany as well as in other East European and Western countries. He concludes that the GDR was unable to cope with the trade-off between ambitious social policy goals and a deteriorating economic performance. Ritter embeds his analysis of the Social Union in a general study of German unification, its international circumstances and its domestic repercussions(1989-1994). He argues that social policy played a pivotal role in German unification, and that there was no alternative to extending the West German welfare state to the East. Ritter, a distinguished historian, bases his contribution on an award-winning study for which he drew on archival sources and interviews with key actors. Schmidt is a distinguished political scientist.
 

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Original studies of social policy in the German Democratic Republic and of the pivotal role of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990 Includes an award winning study of German unification and its repercussions (1989-1994) Broadly based on archival sources and interviews with key actors Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras