Comparison Of The German And The British Welfare System

Author : Susanne Obermaier
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656113114
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparison of the German and the British Welfare System written by Susanne Obermaier and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 2-3, Management Center Innsbruck, course: Fundamentals of Health Economics, language: English, abstract: How are the German and the British social security systems comparable? What are the problems when evaluating welfare states? A short overview.

Author : Steffen Mau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134370555
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Economy of Welfare States written by Steffen Mau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas of social justice people adhere to. Analysing both the institution of welfare and the public attitudes towards such schemes, the book demonstrates that people are neither selfish nor altruistic; rather they tend to reason reciprocally.

Author : E. P. Hennock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521592127
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914 written by E. P. Hennock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).

Author : Jochen Clasen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191533734
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming European Welfare States written by Jochen Clasen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare state reform has been a focus of domestic policy making in many European countries in recent years. Representing almost a third of the EU population and two distinctive models of European welfare states, this book compares development in British and German social policy over the past 25 years. During this time four periods of conservative governments were followed by centre-left administrations in both countries. Moreover, the respective economic and social positions of the two countries have been reversed. Adverse socio-economic developments have contributed to the waning of the erstwhile appeal of Germany as a role model of welfare capitalism. By contrast, the UK is seen by some as being on its way to gaining such a position. These trends provide an analytically intriguing background for a systematic contextualized comparison of reform processes in the two welfare states. Concentrating on three core domains of social policy, the book argues that unemployment support and public pension programmes have been subjected to retrenchment, as well as to restructuring. By contrast, family policies have been extended in both countries. However, patterns of retrenchment and restructuring differ across countries and programmes. In order to explain similarities and variations, the book emphasizes the relevance of three sets of factors: shifts in party policy preferences and power relations, three institutional variables, and contingent factors impinging on policy direction and profiles. Within pension policy, the relevance of different institutional characteristics and the respective balance between private and public forms of retirement suggest that the concept of 'path dependence' is particularly instructive. By contrast, differences in programme structures and their role within national political economies prove to be most relevant for the understanding of changes in unemployment support policy. Less institutionally embedded and expanding, the trajectories of family policies have to be seen in the context of dynamic party policy preferences.

Author : Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319636529
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below written by Bernhard Ebbinghaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change. It highlights that welfare states are hard pressed to reform in order to cope with ongoing socio-economic and demographic challenges. While public opinion is commonly seen to oppose welfare cuts and organized interests such as trade unions have tended to defend acquired social rights, this book shows that there have been emergent tendencies in favour of reform. Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below analyses a wide range of social policies affecting healthcare, pensions and the labour market to demonstrate how social groups and interest organizations differ and interact in their approaches to reform. Comparing Britain and Germany, with its two very different welfare states, it provides a European perspective on the changing approaches to welfare. This book will be of interest to those wanting to learn more about the politics of the welfare state and of relevance to students and academics in the fields of political economy and comparative social policy.

Author : Jochen Clasen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191618160
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Converging Worlds of Welfare? written by Jochen Clasen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes stock of major and recent developments in welfare policy in the UK and Germany. Concentrating on trends since the 1990s it compares the similarities and differences between the two countries and analyses the degree to which social attitudes towards welfare provision, fairness, and social justice have changed. It focuses on the policy areas that have been particularly affected in recent years and examines change and possible convergence across three public policy domains: family policy, pensions and policies aimed at social and labour market integration. The book covers both public provision as well as the role of company-based social protection. Based on new empirical survey research as well as focus group interviews, the contributions analyse the ways in which social policies have adapted to common and country-specific challenges, and provide an understanding of the changing welfare landscapes in the UK and Germany.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Non-employment and the Welfare State written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany written by Wolfgang J. Mommsen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jochen Clasen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming European Welfare States written by Jochen Clasen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Franz Rothenbacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The welfare state of the civil (or public) servants in Europe written by Franz Rothenbacher and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: