Ideationnal lesdership in german welfare state reform how policians and policy idears transform resil...

Sabina Stiller Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Reform How Politicians and Policy Ideas Transform Resilient Institutions A m s t e r d a m U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s ideational leadership in german welfare state reform CHANGING WELFARE STATES Advanced welfare states seem remarkably stable at first glance. Although most member states of the European Union (EU) have undertaken compre-hensive welfare reform, especially since the 1990s, much comparative wel-fare state analysis portrays a ‘frozen welfare landscape’. Social spending is stable. However, if we interpret the welfare state as more than aggregate so-cial spending and look at long-term trends, we can see profound transfor-mations across several policy areas, ranging from labour market policy and regulation, industrial relations, social protection, social services like child care and education, pensions, and long-term care. This series is about tra-jectories of change. Have there been path-breaking welfare innovations or simply attempts at political reconsolidation? What new policies have been added, and with what consequences for competitiveness, employment, in-come equality and poverty, gender relations, human capital formation, and fiscal sustainability? What is the role of the European Union in shaping na-tional welfare state reform? Are advanced welfare states moving in a similar or even convergent direction, or are they embarking on ever more divergent trajectories of change? These issues raise fundamental questions about the politics of reform. If policy-makers do engage in major reforms (despite the numerous institutional, political and policy obstacles), what factors enable them to do so? While the overriding objective of the series is to trace tra-jectories of contemporary welfare state reform, the editors also invite the submission of manuscripts which focus on theorizing institutional change in the social policy arena. editors of the series Gøsta Esping-Andersen, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Anton Hemerijck, the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid − wrr) Kees van Kersbergen, Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Kimberly Morgan, George Washington University, Washington, USA Romke van der Veen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Jelle Visser, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Reform How Politicians and Policy Ideas Transform Resilient Institutions Sabina Stiller Cover illustration: J.M.W. Turner, War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet, ex-hibited 1842, oil on canvas, 79,4 x 79,4 cm, Tate Britain, London Cover design: Jaak Crasborn bno, Valkenburg a/d Geul Layout: V3-Services, Baarn isbn 978 90 8964 186 1 e-isbn 978 90 4851 174 7 nur 754 / 759 © Sabina Stiller / Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2010 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (elec-tronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. ... - tailieumienphi.vn