Reforming the Welfare State: German and European Experiences and Challenges

Bernhard Seliger

International Area Studies Review, 2001, vol. 4, issue 1, 63-87

Abstract: The rise of the welfare state has been a characteristic feature of Western European development after the second world war, despite quite different economic models in Western European countries. However, dynamic implications of the welfare state made a reform increasingly necessary. Therefore, since the 1980s the reform of the welfare state has been an important topic for Western European states. This paper describes the development of the welfare state and analyzes possible welfare reform strategies with special respect to the case of Germany. It focuses on the interdependence of political and economic aspects of welfare reform on the national as well as international level.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/223386590100400105

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