This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provi

This book breaks new intellectual ground in the analysis of the German welfare state. Bleses and Seeleib-Kaiser argue that we are witnessing a dual transformati

Edward Dickinson traces the story of German child welfare policy over an extended period of conflict and compromise among competing groups-progressive social re

This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic