The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State (Record no. 51222)

000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 04759nam a22005055i 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 978-3-642-22528-4
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20200420211750.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 121116s2013 gw | s |||| 0|eng d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9783642225284
-- 978-3-642-22528-4
082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call Number 361
100 1# - AUTHOR NAME
Author Schmidt, Manfred G.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State
Sub Title The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German Unification (1989-1994) /
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages XVI, 308 p.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement German Social Policy ;
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Remark 2 L. Leisering: Introduction -- M. G. Schmidt: Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic: Introduction.- "Socialist Social Policy" -- The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR -- The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime -- The Welfare State as Political Process: From Ulbricht to Honecker to German Unification -- Outcomes of Social Policies -- The GDR in Comparative Perspective: A Socialist Work and Welfare State -- Continuity and Discontinuity in GDR Social Policy -- G. A. Ritter: The Politics of German Unification - Social, Economic, Financial Constitutional and International Issues: Introduction -- The International Context of German Unification -- Social Policy in the Process of Unification -- The Economic, Financial and Constitutional Problems of Unification.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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 provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the "Social Union", the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990. Schmidt's analysis of the GDR also depicts commonalities and differences between the welfare state in East and West Germany as well as in other East European and Western countries. He concludes that the GDR was unable to cope with the trade-off between ambitious social policy goals and a deteriorating economic performance. Ritter embeds his analysis of the Social Union in a general study of German unification, its international circumstances and its domestic repercussions (1989-1994). He argues that social policy played a pivotal role in German unification, and that there was no alternative to extending the West German welfare state to the East. Ritter, a distinguished historian, bases his contribution on an award-winning study for which he drew on archival sources and interviews with key actors. Schmidt is a distinguished political scientist.  .
700 1# - AUTHOR 2
Author 2 Ritter, Gerhard A.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22528-4
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type eBooks
264 #1 -
-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2013.
336 ## -
-- text
-- txt
-- rdacontent
337 ## -
-- computer
-- c
-- rdamedia
338 ## -
-- online resource
-- cr
-- rdacarrier
347 ## -
-- text file
-- PDF
-- rda
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1
-- History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1
-- Political science.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1
-- Social policy.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1
-- Economics.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1
-- Social Policy.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1
-- Political Science.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1
-- History, general.
912 ## -
-- ZDB-2-SBE

No items available.