Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: A, University of Dalarna (Political Sociology), course: Res

The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also

Welfare state reform has been a focus of domestic policy making in many European countries in recent years. Representing almost a third of the EU population and

Argues that the high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way

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