Social Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Constitution of the Social

2011 ◽  
pp. 23-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans F. Zacher
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The Social

Rights, Citizenship, and Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Peter C. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Social Rule ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
State Interventions ◽  
The Relationship

The social rule of law, or social Rechtsstaat, was a second key term used in the first decade of the Federal Republic of Germany to justify extensive state interventions into society, so long as they preserved individual freedoms. Individual freedoms—such as the right to free speech, the right to enter and exit contracts, and the right to own property—required some kind of social supplement to ensure real freedom, or so the term suggested. By cementing this principle in the Basic Law, the founders opened up a debate about the justification, nature, and extent of the welfare state. Some, like Ernst Forsthoff, rejected the entire discussion as non-sensical; others, like Wolfgang Abendroth, viewed the constitutional concept as a spur to social reform. While this debate took place among lawyers, its real significance lay in the way it articulated the relationship between social policy and democracy.

Social security in the Federal Republic of Germany

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-330
Author(s):  
Detlev Zöllner
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Responsibility ◽  
First Time ◽  
Modern Term

Present trends and problems in the field of social security in the Federal Republic of Germany may become clearer in the light of past developments. Activities which deserve the modern term ‘social policy’ began in 1794, when a Prussian law set forth the duty of public authorities to secure for every citizen the necessary maintenance (Verpflegung) irrespective of the cause of his distress. This was the first time that public responsibility for the maintenance of the citizen was recognized in Germany, and this was the origin of what is now called the social assistance scheme (Sozialhilfe).

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Peter C. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
German Word ◽  
Policy Sociology ◽  
State Programs ◽  
The Welfare State

This book describes how experts in the “old” Federal Republic of Germany (1949–1989) sought to make sense of the vast array of state programs, expenditures, and bureaucracies aimed at solving social problems. These observers worked in the fields of politics, economics, law, social policy, sociology, and philosophy. They made sense of the developing welfare state by describing discrete programs and by explaining what the programs meant as a whole. Their real concern was to grasp their state, which was now social (one German word for the welfare state is indeed ...

„Soziale Indikatoren“ in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland? / “Social Indicators” in the Federal Republic of Germany?

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Bundesrepublik Deutschland ◽  
The Social ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Measuring Tool

AbstractAlthough the notion of social indicators became a topic of scientific discussion in the Federal Republic of Germany only in 1971, there are today already quite a number of publications as well as research projects centering on this new concept. Research workers and authors, respectively, of these have joined together in the ‘Social Indicators’ Section of the German Sociological Association. The present report underlines the necessity for scientists, administrators, and politicians, to co-operate on the task of developing this new measuring tool; it also discusses some of the difficulties connected with this venture.

scholarly journals Workers under Communist Rule: Research in the Former Socialist Countries of Eastern-Central and South-Eastern Europe and in the Federal Republic of Germany

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Heumos
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Social History ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
Eastern European Countries

SummaryAfter the collapse of the communist system in eastern Europe, the development of the historiographies in the Czech and Slovak republics, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Federal Republic of Germany has been characterized by a broad spectrum of differences. This article offers an overview of the ways in which these differences have worked out for the history of the working class in the eastern European countries under communist rule, understood here as the social history of workers. It shows that cultural and political traditions and the “embedding” of historical research in the respective societies prior to 1989, the extent to which historiography after 1989 was able to connect to pre-1989 social-historical or sociological investigations, and the specific national political situation after 1989 make up for much of the differences in the ways that the history of the working class is dealt with in the countries concerned.

Economic Implications of Migration into the Federal Republic of Germany, 1988–1992

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 693-709
Author(s):  
Arne Gieseck ◽  
Ullrich Heilemann ◽  
Hans Dietrich von Loeffelholz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Social System ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

An analysis of the effects of the last wave of migration into West Germany on labor markets, public finances and economic growth, this study points at the often ignored fact that the migrants were rather successful in finding jobs and thus helped in eliminating labor shortages in certain industries. Simulations with a macroeconometric model for the FRG indicate that in 1992 the GDP was almost 6 percent higher than without migration, that 90,000 jobs were created and that migration created a surplus of DM14 billion in the public sector, compared to the baseline. This study also makes clear, however that these effects mainly depend on a quick absorption of migrants by FRG labor markets, and as to the social system, the relief may be only transitory.

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