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Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State - Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989 (Hardcover)
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Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State - Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989 (Hardcover)
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Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political
thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing
on the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1989). The volume argues
that the welfare state informed and altered basic questions of
democracy and its relationship to capitalism. These questions were
especially important for West Germany, given its recent experience
with the collapse of capitalism, the disintegration of democracy,
and National Socialist dictatorship after 1930. Three central
issues emerged. First, the development of a nearly all-embracing
set of social services and payments recast the problem of how
social groups and interests related to the state, as state agencies
and affected groups generated their own clientele, their own
advocacy groups, and their own expert information. Second, the
welfare state blurred the line between state and society that is
constitutive of basic rights and the classic world of liberal
freedom; rights became claims on the state, and social groups
became integral parts of state administration. Third, the welfare
state potentially reshaped the individual citizen, who became
wrapped up with mandatory social insurance systems, provisioning of
money and services related to social needs, and the regulation of
everyday life. Peter C. Caldwell describes how West German experts
sought to make sense of this vast array of state programs,
expenditures, and bureaucracies aimed at solving social problems.
Coming from backgrounds in politics, economics, law, social policy,
sociology, and philosophy, they sought to conceptualize their
state, which was now social (one German word for the welfare state
is indeed Sozialstaat), and their society, which was permeated by
state policies.
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