The price of German unity: reunification and the crisis of the welfare state

The first full-scale analysis of the history of German reunification, with a particular emphasis on social policy, showing how the transfer of the West German social policy framework to the East intensified the crisis of the German welfare state. INDICE: Preface; Introduction; Part I: German unity: the framework; 1: Thepolitical framework; 2: German unity and social policy: the legal framework; 3: The German economy and the process of unification; 4: The social structure and expectations from social policy; Part II: The creation of the social union; 5: The central features of the social union; the legislation and institutions governing social policy in the Federal Republic and the GDR compared; 6: Thesocial policy of the Modrow government; 7: The State Treaty on monetary, economic and social union; 8: The social legislation of the de Maizière government; 9: The Unification Treaty; 10: The social policy actors and the unification process; Part III: Changes to the German welfare state after German unification, 1990-1994; 11: The build-up of welfare-state institutions and providers in the new Bundesländer; 12: The debates on Germany's economic position and on the problems in financial and social policy resulting from German unity; 13: Social policy and its actors, 1991-1994; Concluding reflections; Appendix; Notes;Sources and bibliography; Glossary of terms and abbreviations; The principal actors in the process of German unification; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955682-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 512
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés