Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-100
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
State Reform ◽  
Democracy Education ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Welfare State Reform

Sarah Elise Wiliarty, The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany: Bringing Women to the PartyReviewed by Louise K. Davidson-SchmichSilja Häusermann, The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe: Modernization in Hard TimesReviewed by Aaron P. BoeseneckerMartin Klimke, The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global SixtiesReviewed by Chris LoreKatja M.Guenther, Making their Place: Feminism after Socialism in Eastern GermanyReviewed by Ingrid MietheBrian M. Puaca, Learning Democracy: Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965Reviewed by Miriam IntratorHans Kundnani, Utopia or Auschwitz—Germany’s 1968 Generation and the HolocaustReviewed by Joyce Marie MushabenRuth H. Sanders, German: Biography of a LanguageReviewed by Kurt R. JankowskyAndrew Wright Hurley, The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural ExchangeReviewed by Jonathan WipplingerTheo Sarrazin, Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzenReviewed by Randall Hansen

Book Reviews

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-141
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Security Affairs

Henning Tewes, Germany, Civilian Power and the New Europe. Enlarging NATO and the European Union (New York: Palgrave, 2002)Review by James SperlingAndreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003)Review by Eric LangenbacherMaria Höhn, GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)Review by Atina GrossmannJames McAllister, No Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943-1954, Cornell Studies in Security Affairs (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002)Review by Robert Gerald LivingstonHubert Zimmermann, Money and Security: Troops, Monetary Policy, and West Germany’s Relations to the United States and the United Kingdom, 1950-1971 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)Review by Thomas Banchoff

Fixed or Variable Needs? Public Support and Welfare State Reform

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Jensen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
Welfare State Reform

AbstractThe study of welfare state reform has in the last decade been strongly influenced by the ‘new politics’ literature. A fundamental assumption of this literature is that the public has fixed attitudes concerning welfare benefits; however, this may be hard to sustain empirically. Instead, this article argues that public support differs depending on whether a welfare programme aims at relieving fixed or variable needs. By analysing reforms of old-age pension schemes and the introduction of workfare strategies in the United States, France and Denmark, the fruitfulness of this approach is indicated.

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