One Hundred Years of Social Protection
The Changing Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa
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One Hundred Years of Social Protection: The Rise of the Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, 1920–2020
This chapter concludes the volume on social protection in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, 1920–2020. The main findings are: (1) Historical evolution—the hundred years from 1920 to 2020 mark the century...
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Social Protection in the Global South: An Ideational and Historical Approach
This chapter is the introduction to the volume on social protection in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. The Introduction outlines an ideational and historical approach to social protection in the Global...
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A new pathway to universalism? Explaining the spread of ‘social’ pensions in the global South, 1967–2011
The assumption of social responsibility for all citizens is a hallmark of the welfare state, reflecting a notion of universalism. But in develo** countries, old-age pensions only cover small sections of the ...
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Nation State and Social Policy: An Ideational and Political History
Advances in social policy were often related to processes of nation-building, like the introduction of social insurance by Chancellor Bismarck during the years 1883–1889 which contributed to the social integra...
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Nation State and Social Policy: An Ideational and Political History
Advances in social policy were often related to processes of nation-building, like the introduction of social insurance by Chancellor Bismarck during the years 1883–1889 which contributed to the social integra...
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Dynamik von Armut
Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich in Europa eine „dynamische“ Armutsforschung entwickelt, die Einkommensarmut, Sozialhilfebezug und Deprivation im Längsschnitt untersucht (Verlaufsanalysen anhand von Mikrodaten)...
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Varieties of Market Regulation: Comparing the New Pension Regulation to the Regulation of Public Utilities
Older traditions of thinking about regulation exist in several countries. In the more recent history of public policy it was public utilities and their privatization in European countries since the 1980s which...
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Varieties of the New Regulatory State: Comparing the UK and Germany
The UK and Germany differ in many respects: the two countries have been juxtaposed as specimens of a liberal market economy and a coordinated market economy respectively; as a liberal and a conservative-corpor...
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Introduction: Towards a New Regulatory State in Old-Age Security? Exploring the Issues
Are we currently witnessing the rise of a new regulatory state in the field of social security? The privatization of public utilities such as gas and water and the general liberalization of markets in European...
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The Regulatory Policies of Private Pensions in the UK and Germany: Goals and Instruments of Regulation in a Welfare State Environment
The interpretation of the (partial) privatization of social services in European welfare states since the 1990s is controversial. Social critics diagnose a ‘surrender of public responsibility’ (Gilbert, 2002) ...
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Transformations of the State: Comparing the New Regulatory State to the Post-War Provider State
The modern nation state is facing the double challenge of privatization and globalization (Leibfried and Zürn, 2006). The global pension fund capitalism links the two challenges. Some observers claim that the ...
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Afterword: Rethinking the Nation State
The move towards marketization in old-age security is not just the outcome of ‘neoliberal’ thinking, but reflects wider changes in society during the post-war decades. This includes cultural changes like indiv...
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Innenansichten eines Wohlfahrtsmarkts
Die Rentenreform 2001, bekannt als „Riesterreform“, hat die Alterssicherung in Deutschland neu geordnet. Privater Altersvorsorge wird ein höherer Stellenwert zugemessen. Damit rekurriert die Politik auch im Fe...
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Gibt es einen Weltwohlfahrtsstaat?
Der Wohlfahrtsstaat ist historisch ein nationalstaatliches Projekt, das sich Ende des 19. und im 20. Jahrhundert in einigen Ländern West- und Nordeuropas entwickelte. Von daher liegt die Annahme nicht nahe, da...
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Laudation on Prof. em. John W. Meyer, Stanford University
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The Welfare State in Postwar Germany
In this chapter I shall deal with the Federal Republic of Germany (1949–2003). Germany pioneered modern state welfare through the introduction of social insurance by Chancellor Bismarck in the 1880s, and as in...
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Government and the Life Course
All government policies affect the lives of citizens in some direct or indirect way. Despite the pervasiveness of the influence, relatively little attention has been given to the manner in which government imp...
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Entgrenzung und Remoralisierung Alterssicherung und Generationenbeziehungen im globalisierten Wohlfahrtskapitalismus
Der Beitrag rekonstruiert den Wandel der Alterssicherung seit dem 19. Jahrhundert unter dem Gesichtspunkt des damit verbundenen Wandels der Generationenbeziehungen. Der erste Befund ist eine Ausweitung der Ar...
