Search Results for: Social Policy In Germany

This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provi

The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but c

Why does the welfare state develop so unevenly across countries, regions, and localities? What accounts for the exclusions and disciplinary features of social p

Edward Dickinson traces the story of German child welfare policy over an extended period of conflict and compromise among competing groups-progressive social re

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 transformati