scholarly journals Zur Politischen Ökonomie des Wohlfahrtsstaates - und ihrer überfälligen Kritik

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (49) ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Michael Krätke

Einen Wohlfahrtsstaat zu schaffen, der den inneren sozialen Krieg der Nationen auf immer beenden sollte, wurde im Verlauf des II. Weltkrieges zum innenpolitischen Kriegsziel Nummer 1 der Alliierten. Die Idee eines Wohlfahrtsstaates, in dem Not, Krankheit, Unwissenheit beseitigt und eine »soziale Demokratie« auf der Basis gleicher sozialer Grundrechte für jedermann verwirklicht sein sollte, gehörte zum Pathos dieses Krieges und wurde zum politischen Kampfbegriff der nichtkommunistischen Linken im Nachkriegseuropa. Dieser Kampf- und Wertbegriff stand und steht unter Ideologieverdacht. Ideologieverdächtig war die Rede vom Wohlfahrtsstaat, weil dies neue Schlagwort der politischen Sprache zusammen mit seinen zahlreichen, schmückenden Parallelausdrücken - wie »Social Service State«, »Social Security State«, »Full Employment State« usw. - ein epochemachendes Programm umschrieb, das die Legitimation des bürgerlichen »Rechtsstaates« auf eine neue, verbreiterte Basis stellen sollte ( vgl. Kraemer 1966, 13f). Die intellektuelle Linke hat sich denn auch mit Vorliebe auf die »Sozialstaatsideologie« gestürzt und versucht, ihren Ideologieverdacht zu erhärten.

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 457-470
Author(s):  
John Pinder

THE 1950s WERE A WONDERFUL DECADE FOR APPLIED SOCIAL science: for the belief that reason addressed to economic and social problems can improve the human condition. Compare the 1950s with the 1930s and ask how much of the improvement was due to Keynes and Beveridge. It is inevitable that a generation of debunkers should follow whose answer would be ‘not much’. But that would have seemed a strange conclusion in the 1950s; and the view of the 1950s was surely right. We had full employment in place of 10 per cent unemployment in the 1920s and nearly 15 per cent in the 1930s; and after the first years of post-war reconstruction, it was reasonable to attribute this to Keynesian demand management. We had a safety net through which relatively few fell into poverty; and this was Beveridge's social security and the welfare state.


Author(s):  
Jean K. Quam

Edith Abbott (1876–1957) was a social worker and educator. She was Dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago from 1924 to 1942 and she helped in drafting the Social Security Act of 1935.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Ririn Restu Aria ◽  
Annisa Nur Rosdiana

BPJS health is a social security organizer that organizes health insurance for the community. One of the most important activities is the preparation of a BPJS recommendation letter for class three which is managed by the Bogor City Social Service. To make a recommendation letter, the applicant must submit the letter to the service department and must be approved in advance by the head of the social service office. so that letter-writing services can run quickly and effectively, applications must be made available that make it easy for the head of the office to see and approve the existing application letter. In this study the method used is the waterfall so that it can understand the overall problem and produce applications that suit the needs of users. The purpose of this study is to provide convenience for the applicant, the service department and the head of the office in the process of submitting a BPJS recommendation letter and approval made in the proposed recommendation letter.


1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (10/11) ◽  
pp. 1354-1370
Author(s):  
Daniel J. O’Neil

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Göran Therborn ◽  
Joop Roebroek

The rise of the welfare state in the 1960s and 1970s meant important changes within the Western states: apparatuses of armed forces, bureaucratic ordering, and public transport and communication became institutions of transfer payments to households, and public education, caring and social services. In this article we describe the influence of the current economic crisis on the welfare state. Average yearly growth of social security expenditure continues, but has declined since 1981. Generous systems of social security clearly provide no security against the consequences of the economic crisis, especially unemployment. Public commitment to social security and full employment are largely independent of each other. We describe how, under the surface of welfare state growth, the political relations of force have changed in favor of those social forces advocating fundamental reappraisal of the welfare state over those supporting its maintenance or extension. The resistance to significant changes is so strong, however, that fundamental reconstruction of the welfare state is as yet excluded. We hold that the welfare state is an irreversible major institution of advanced capitalist countries, as long as democracy prevails. The building of a majoritarian anti-welfare state coalition seems impossible for the foreseeable future, but in some countries significant cuts must be expected; we end by specifying some economic and political preconditions for such cuts.


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