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Christian and Social Democratic parties have been the driving force behind welfare state developments post-WWII. This valuable book investigates whether continued party differences have contributed significantly to the design of social welfare in three conservative welfare states, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, since the mid-1970s. Rather than assuming continued differences or convergence between parties, the primary focus is to empirically analyze party positions with regard to employment and labour market policies, social security, and family policies as well as the implemented policies themselves. The analysis demonstrates how changed interpretative patterns have led to a programmatic convergence amongst Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, largely resulting in a liberal-communitarian approach to the development of social welfare policies.Providing a comprehensive approach to welfare state analysis and scrutinizing the policy domains of employment, social security and family policies, this book will be of great interest to political scientists and sociologists interested in welfare state developments. It will also appeal to lecturers and postgraduate students in (comparative) social policy.

Christian and Social Democratic parties have been the driving force behind welfare state developments post-WWII. This valuable book investigates whether continued party differences have contributed significantly to the design of social welfare in three conservative welfare states, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, since the mid-1970s. Rather than assuming continued differences or convergence between parties, the primary focus is to empirically analyze party positions with regard to employment and labour market policies, social security, and family policies as well as the implemented policies themselves. The analysis demonstrates how changed interpretative patterns have led to a programmatic convergence amongst Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, largely resulting in a liberal-communitarian approach to the development of social welfare policies.Providing a comprehensive approach to welfare state analysis and scrutinizing the policy domains of employment, social security and family policies, this book will be of great interest to political scientists and sociologists interested in welfare state developments. It will also appeal to lecturers and postgraduate students in (comparative) social policy.

Obwohl nach drei Jahrzehnten des kollektiven Beschweigens seit den 1980er Jahren einige verdienstvolle Arbeiten zur soziologischen Fachgeschichte im Dritten Reich erschienen sind, haben diese nur vereinzelt und in Ausnahmesituationen Eingang ins Herz der Disziplin gefunden. Lange Zeit hat sich so der Mythos von der weißen Weste der Soziologie und der strukturellen Unvereinbarkeit von Soziologie und Nationalsozialismus gehalten. Diesen Mythos zu brechen ist das Ziel der vorliegenden Publikation, die die umfassenden vorhandenen Erkenntnisse zur Geschichte des Faches im Nationalsozialismus einer größeren LeserInnenschaft zugänglich machen möchte. Darüber hinaus wird in bislang nicht geschehener Weise die Bedeutung des Jenaer Soziologentreffens von 1934 für die Entwicklung der Soziologie im Nationalsozialismus und die Stilllegung der DGS herausgearbeitet und abschließend eine ebenso komprimierte wie umfassende Chronologie der Aufarbeitung von 1946 bis heute präsentiert.