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Social Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany : The Constitution of the Social / by Hans F. Zacher
(German Social Policy ; 3)

Publisher	(Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2013
Edition	1st ed. 2013.
Authors	*Zacher, Hans F author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XVIII, 442 p : online resource
Notes	L. Leisering: Introduction -- H. F. Zacher: Social Policy in the FRG - The Constitution of the Social: The "Social" as the Guiding Concept of Politics and Law -- Social Policy and the Social Post-War Germany: a Political and Legal History -- The FRG - a Difficult, Fractured, and Open Nation State -- Where We Stand Today The book is part of the 5-volume series “German Social Policy”, a unique multidisciplinary approach to the history of German social policy written by the doyens of their respective disciplines. The volumes expound the contribution of the German tradition to the rise of social policy in the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Germany pioneered modern social policy in the 19th century when Bismarck introduced social insurance. After the Second World War, Germany’s Social Market Economy became a model of social integration. The volumes cover the history of ideas (volume 1), the legal and political history before and after 1945 (volumes 2 and 3), the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and the impact of German reunification (1990) (volume 4). Volume 5 embeds the German case in a major comparative study of European welfare states, complemented by a study of the USA and the Soviet Union. The volumes also yield insights into general theoretical issues of social policy beyond the empirical case of Germany. Each volume has an introduction by the editor who summarizes the contribution made by the volumes and looks into the future of German social policy. This book investigates the history of the post-war welfare state in Germany and its normative foundations, with special emphasis on constitutional issues. The author, formerly Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich, and President of the Max-Planck-Society, argues that social policy – not only in Germany – is about struggles over the “social”. The “social” is an open and changing concept that reflects the modern quest for equality, voiced in semantics like justice, participation, inclusion and security. The “social” and the “social state” (the German term for welfare state) are enshrined in the German Constitution of 1949, the Grundgesetz. The book sets out the phases of welfare state development in depth. Social policies are analysed in view of wider contexts, especially the nation state, the rule of law (Rechtsstaat), federalism and democracy. The author emphasizes the dialectics between the national character of the welfare state and its manifold international references HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22525-3
Subjects	LCSH:Social policy LCSH:Political science LCSH:Constitutional law LCSH:History FREE:Social Policy FREE:Political Science FREE:Constitutional Law FREE:History
Classification	LCC:HV70-72 DC23:361.61
ID	8000009403
ISBN	9783642225253