How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these questions both empirically and theoretically by concentrating on one of the least likely cases for welfare state transformation in Europe. It analyzes in detail how and why institutional change has taken Germany s welfare state from a conservative towards a new work-first regime.
Christof Schiller introduces a novel analytical framework to make sense of the politics of welfare state transformation by providing the missing link: the capacity...
How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these...