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Based on sophisticated theoretical reasoning and careful empirical analysis covering a period of 30 years, this book makes the strong case that Germany no longer represents a conservative but rather a work-first welfare state. Schillers intriguing thesis of such a regime change is well-argued and is bound to become a major contribution to the debate about the causes, and the consequences, of reforming key social policy programmes in advanced welfare states.

Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh, UK

Schiller tackles up front two major issues within the current welfare state literature: how to measure policy change and how to enact institutional change. He demonstrates how the politico-administrative system successfully facilitated a profound transformation of the German welfare state over the past thirty years. This is a must read for anyone interested in the role of core executive in welfare state reform, the conceptualisation of policy change and the future of the German welfare state.

Patrik Marier, Concordia University, Canada

The Politics of Welfare State
Transformation in Germany

How can we best analyze 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 Germanys welfare state from a conservative toward 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 of the core executive over time. Examining the policy-making process in labor market policy in the period between 1980 and 2010, he identifies three different policy-making episodes and analyzes their interaction with developments and changes in such policy areas as pension policy, family policy, labor law, tax policy and social assistance. The book advances existing efforts aimed at conceptualizing and measuring welfare state change by proposing a clear-cut conceptualization of social policy regime change and introduces a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the welfarework nexus between 1980 and 2010 in Germany.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of social policy, comparative welfare state reform, welfare politics, government, governance, public policy, German politics, European politics, political economy, sociology and history.

Christof Schiller is a Fellow at the Potsdam Center for Policy and Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of Welfare

Series editors:

Martin Rhodes and Maurizio Ferrera

The European University Institute, Florence, Italy

This series presents leading edge research on the recasting of European welfare states. The series is interdisciplinary, featuring contributions from experts in economics, political science and social policy. The books provide a comparative analysis of topical issues, including:

reforms of the major social programs pensions, health, social security

the changing political cleavages in welfare politics

policy convergence and social policy innovation

the impact of globalization.

Pension Reform in Europe
Politics, policies and outcomes
Edited by Camila Arza and Martin Kohli

Pension Politics
Consensus and social conflict in ageing societies
Patrik Marier

Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes
The influence of the open method of coordination on national reforms
Edited by Martin Heidenreich and Jonathan Zeitlin

The Risk of Social Policy?
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries
Nathalie Giger

The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany
Containing social reforms
Thomas Paster

Politics of Segmentation
Party competition and social protection in Europe
Georg Picot

Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
From post-socialist transition to the global financial crisis
Igor Guardiancich

The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany
Still a semi-sovereign state?
Christof Schiller

The Politics of Welfare State
Transformation in Germany

Still a semi-sovereign state?

Christof Schiller

First published 2016
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2016 Christof Schiller

The right of Christof Schiller to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schiller, Christof (Political scientist), author.
Title: The politics of welfare state transformation in Germany : still a semi-sovereign state / Christof Schiller.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge studies in the political economy of welfare ; 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015045015| ISBN 9781138125261 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315623900 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Public welfareGermanyHistory. | Welfare stateGermanyHistory. | Manpower policyGermanyHistory. | GermanySocial policy. | GermanyEconomic policy.
Classification: LCC HV275 .S266 2016 | DDC 361.6/80943dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015045015

ISBN: 978-1-138-12526-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-62390-0 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

For Nicola and Emma Josefine

Contents

Part I
Analyzing welfare state change

Part II
Welfare state transformation in Germany

Part III
Three policy-making episodes in German labor market policy

(English translation in parentheses)

AfA Arbeitsgemeinschaft fr Arbeitnehmerfragen (Committee for Labor-Related Questions)

AFG Arbeitsfrderungsgesetz (Labour Promotion Act)

AFRG Arbeitsfrderungsreformgesetz (Labor Promotion Reform Act)

ALG II Arbeitslosengeld II (unemployment benefit II)

ALMP active labor market policy

APW average production worker wage

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