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The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State: The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German Unification (1989-1994) (German Social Policy, 4)
ISBN-13:
9783642447037
ISBN-10:
3642447031
Edition:
2013
Author:
Gerhard A. Ritter, Manfred G. Schmidt
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Springer
Format:
Paperback
324 pages
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ISBN-13:
9783642447037
ISBN-10:
3642447031
Edition:
2013
Author:
Gerhard A. Ritter, Manfred G. Schmidt
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Springer
Format:
Paperback
324 pages
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The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State: The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German Unification (1989-1994) (German Social Policy, 4) (ISBN-13: 9783642447037 and ISBN-10: 3642447031), written by authors
Gerhard A. Ritter, Manfred G. Schmidt, was published by Springer in 2014.
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the “Social Union”, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990. Schmidt’s analysis of the GDR also depicts commonalities and differences between the welfare state in East and West Germany as well as in other East European and Western countries. He concludes that the GDR was unable to cope with the trade-off between ambitious social policy goals and a deteriorating economic performance. Ritter embeds his analysis of the Social Union in a general study of German unification, its international circumstances and its domestic repercussions (1989-1994). He argues that social policy played a pivotal role in German unification, and that there was no alternative to extending the West German welfare state to the East. Ritter, a distinguished historian, bases his contribution on an award-winning study for which he drew on archival sources and interviews with key actors. Schmidt is a distinguished political scientist.
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