This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provi

This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).

This 'Very Short Introduction' discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological,

For many, the history of German social policy is defined primarily by that nation’s postwar emergence as a model of the European welfare state. As this compre

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic