GPS Vol. 4 No. 2

Transforming a Bismarckian Welfare State - Ideas, Interests 

and Voters in German Welfare State Reform

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Introduction: Moving bulky goods. How new ideas and partisan politics are transforming the German welfare states

Wolfram Lamping

Friedbert W. Rüb

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On the Way to Social Investment? The Normative Recalibration of the German Welfare State

Antonio Brettschneider

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Reframing Social Policy: From Conservatism to Liberal Communitarianism 

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

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Between corporatism and lobbyism - German welfare associations in transition

Katrin Toens

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Reforming the Welfare State in Times of Grey Majorities - The Myth of an Opposition between Younger and Older Voters in Germany

Achim Goerres

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On the Horns of a Dilemma. The imperative of a grand coalition is risky - especially for the Social Democrats

Wolfgang Merkel

Bernhard Weßels