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by Sabina Stiller
Amsterdam University Press, 2010
eISBN: 978-90-485-1174-7 | Paper: 978-90-8964-186-1
Library of Congress Classification HN445.5.S73 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 350

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

An important contribution to the debates surrounding the evolution of the European welfare state model, this volume investigates the role that “ideational leadership” has played in the passing of structural reforms in the change-resistant German welfare state. Based on in-depth case studies of individual reforms in health care, pensions, and unemployment insurance since the early 1990s, Stiller illuminates the ways in which Germany has made the transition from its Bismarckian past to a hybrid welfare state.