This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in
Germany in illuminating historical and structural contexts. Showing
how economic reform has become the central issue on the German
political agenda, raising contentious issues of policy management
and posing deeper questions about political beliefs and identities.
It also examines the politics of the reform process, outlining
competing views about the root causes of Germany's economic
problems, the appropriate policy responses, and the distribution of
costs. It situates the reform process in the wider context of the
decline of the German economic model (Modell Deutschland) and
Germany's transition from European 'pace-setter' to economic
'laggard'. Particular attention is paid to the following key
questions: What continuities and discontinuities can be seen in
Germany's political economy? Are globalization and Europeanization
associated with a progressive neo-liberal ascendancy in economic
reform? How does economic reform in Germany compare with that in
other states, notably Britain and France? Are there distinctive
patterns in the way domestic policymakers negotiate economic
reform? How do the characteristics of the German labour market and
welfare state condition economic reform? How much variation exists
at the Laender levels? This book was previously published as a
special issue of German Politics.
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