Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949–1989

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-180
Author(s):  
Marc Buggeln
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Order ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The Welfare State

scholarly journals What Do Migrants Know About Their Childcare Rights? A First Exploration in West Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Seibel
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Migrant Groups ◽  
The Welfare State

AbstractAlthough an increasing number of studies emphasise migrants’ lack of knowledge about their childcare rights as a crucial barrier to their childcare usage, almost none examines the conditions under which migrant families acquire this knowledge. This study contributes to the literature by exploring potential individual factors determining migrant families’ knowledge about their childcare rights in Germany. I use unique data collected through the project Migrants’ Welfare State Attitudes (MIFARE), in which nine different migrant groups in Germany were surveyed about their relation to the welfare state, including childcare. Analysing a total sample of 623 migrants living with children in their household and by using logistic regression analyses, I find that human and social capital play significant roles in explaining migrants’ knowledge about their childcare rights. Migrants who speak the host language sufficiently are more likely to know about their childcare rights; however, it does not matter whether migrants are lower or higher educated. Moreover, I observe that migrants benefit from their co-ethnic relations only if childcare usage is high among their ethnic group. Based on these results, policy recommendations are discussed in order to increase migrants’ knowledge about their childcare rights in Germany.

A Selected Bibliography from Foreign Journals

1952 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-367
Author(s):  
J. Edward Gerald
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
International Federation ◽  
West Germany ◽  
La Paz ◽  
The World ◽  
The Welfare State

The first issues of the I. P. I. Report, published by the International Press Institute, appeared during this quarter. They furnish an unequalled report on communications around the world. L'Echo de la Presse became a weekly on April 11, realizing a seven-year dream of Editor Jacquemart. News developments included progress on reform of the British law of libel, evidence of the growth of advertising in Great Britain during the Socialist emphasis on the welfare state, and consideration of new basic press laws in West Germany, Pakistan and France. The chief editor of a leading Catholic daily in The Netherlands was dismissed. La Prensa of Buenos Aires reappeared as the painted darling of the Peron dictatorship and La Razon of La Paz appeared dead of intimidation by Estenssoro's revolutionary gangs. A leading Communist editor went to jail in France as part of the government's gesture of warning against armed agitation. A new international federation of journalists, the West's answer to the Communist IOJ, elected a famed British labor leader as president.

Why the welfare state matters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Powell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Obligation ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intellectual Challenge ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter explores the ideal of the welfare state with particular reference to Ireland and why it matters to us as European citizens. It discusses the origins of the welfare state, the relationship between welfare and citizenship, Ireland's position within welfare state frameworks, Irish social policy, and the crisis of legitimacy in the welfare state. It is argued that in the reconstructed reality of postmodern society, the challenge of social policy is to respond reflexively to changing needs and demands. The challenge to a universalist welfare state based on social obligation, common citizenship and human rights is manifest. If populism is to be the shape of things to come, where does that leave the welfare state? Is it possible to have a welfare state in a polarised and fragmented social order? This is the great social, political and intellectual challenge of postmodernity.

Early Retirement in Denmark

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-443
Author(s):  
Iver Hornemann Møler
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Retirement Pension ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Self Assessed Health ◽  
The Welfare State

ABSTRACTThe Danish Early Retirement Pension Scheme (ERPS) introduced in 1979 was intended to contribute to the reproduction of the social order and to the legitimation of the welfare state. The first objective was not achieved. Nevertheless ERPS reduced total unemployment by about 20% and thereby contributed to the positive image of the welfare state.Survey data show that the poorer the working conditions the stronger the probability that the eligible take early retirement. High rates of unemployment in industries with physically and psychologically onerous work increase the probability of early retirement. Taken together with employers' wishes for as large as possible a labour reserve and their ambivalent attitude to the total withdrawal of marginal workers, these findings render the debate about voluntary versus compulsory withdrawal from the labour market at best insignificant and at worse misleading.At the same time, ERPS has brought some unintended but quite considerable improvements to the lives of many recipients. These include better self-assessed health, increased contacts with family and friends and new leisure activities. Recently, however, there is evidence of an increase in economic deprivation among recipients, and early retirement pension levels have not kept pace with rises in industrial earnings or the cost of living.

The Zaqât in Muslim society: an analysis of Islamic economic policy

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep-Antoni Ybarra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Islamic Economic ◽  
The Welfare State

For the Muslim, the zaqât is an ethically compulsory payment of a religious character having material connotations. By means of the zaqât, a mechanism of individual and collective regulation is established that permits the promotion, consolidation and organization of the collective, Islam. It is a socializing precept that introduces the beginnings of the “welfare state”. However, it should also be pointed out that it instils in the Muslim ultraconservative behaviour and a disinclination to participate in the life of society; the practice of the zaqât de-incites individual demands, maintaining a status quo in relation to the social order and the logic of a class-conscious society.

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