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Keine sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeit ist ohne die Kooperation von Freun- den, Wissenschaftlem, Bibliothekaren und Archivaren moglich; ihnen al- len gilt mein Dank. Besonders zu danken habe ich Heem Prof. Dr.Dieter Grosser, der dieses Dissertationsprojekt an seinem Lehrstuhl am Geschwi- ster-Scholl-Institut in Munchen ermoglicht hat. Nicht minderer Dank gilt Heem PO Dr. Hartmut Keil vom Amerika-Institut der Ludwig-Maximi- lians-Universitat flir seine kritischen Anregungen. Toshio Tatara, Leiter der Forschungsabteilung bei der American Public Welfare Association, stand mir wahrend meiner...

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 transformation of the welfare state, which is caused by the emergence of new dominating interpretative patterns. Increasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards securing the achieved living standard of former wage earners, which in the past had been the key normative principle of social policy in Germany, while at the same time public support and services for families are expanded.

The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 introduced the right to free movement for EU citizens. Despite this, in practice there are still substantial barriers to securing these freedoms. EU Citizenship and Social Rights discusses and analyses those legal and practical barriers preventing inter-European migrants from integrating into new host countries. Providing analysis of the development of EU social policy, this book highlights the disparate roles of the EU as a whole and of Member States in determining social rights and outcomes. In particular the issues of social assistance, housing benefits,...

Christian and Social Democratic parties have been the driving force behind welfare state developments post-WWII. This valuable book investigates whether continued party differences have contributed significantly to the design of social welfare in three conservative welfare states, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, since the mid-1970s. Rather than assuming continued differences or convergence between parties, the primary focus is to empirically analyze party positions with regard to employment and labour market policies, social security, and family policies as well as the implemented...