Peter C Caldwell

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State

Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989

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Produktbeschreibung

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State uses West Germany as a case study to understand how capitalism, democracy, and welfare states can fit together, despite their often conflicting motivations and priorities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780198833819
• ISBN-10: 0198833814
• Artikelnr.: 55906761

Autorenporträt

Peter C. Caldwell received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Cornell University. He is a Humboldt fellow and recipient of grants from the DAAD. He teaches courses on European political history, German history, revolutions, the welfare state, and the history of political and social thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Welfare State and Democracy
* Part One: Capitalism, Socialism, and a Third Way: The Social Market
Economy and the Social Rechtsstaat
* 1: The Social Market Economy: Postwar Social Thought Beyond
Capitalism and Communism
* 2: Rights, Citizenship, and Society: The Social Rechtsstaat
* Part Two: Building and Conceptualizing the Postwar Welfare State
* 3: The Semantics of Social Security: The 1957 Pensions Reform and the
Sozialstaat
* 4: Conceptualizing the New West German Sozialstaat
* Part Three: The Welfare State as a System
* 5: Modernization and Its Discontents: The Sozialstaat in the Reform
Era, 1963-1973
* 6: From Solution to Problem: The Welfare State as a System
* Conclusion: West German Political Discussion as a Discourse about the
Welfare State