Introduction -- Ideational Leadership: Key to Overcoming Welfare State Resistance to Change -- A Bird's-Eye View of the German Welfare State -- Transformation of Health Care Policy? The Legacy of Minister Seehofer -- Transforming Public Pensions: the Riester Pension Reform -- Transforming Unemployment Policy: The Hartz IV Reform -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Interviewees -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
The author of this study argues that key politicians and their policy ideas, through "ideational leadership", have played an important role in the passing of structural reforms in the change-resistant German welfare state
Analysis
Public administration
Sociology
welvaartsstaat
welfare state
sociaal welzijn
social welfare
gezinnen
families
sociaal beleid
social policy
leiderschap
leadership
overheidsbeleid
government policy
duitsland
germany
weerstand tegen verandering
resistance to change
sociale verandering
social change
Government Policy
Overheidsbeleid
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index
