The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State : the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German unification (1989-1994) / Manfred G. Schmidt , Gerhard A. Ritter
Nation State and Social Policy: An Ideational and Political History Introduction to the Book Series "German Social Policy" 1. The Distinction "State Versus Society" 2. "The Social" 3. Variations of Modern Society: Distinguishing 4. Variations of the Welfare State: The Idiosyncrasy 5. Post-War German Social Policy in Retrospect: The Genesis of a Welfare State 6. What Future for the Social?
Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic 1. Introduction 2. Socialist Social Policy 3. The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR 4. The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime 5. The Welfare State as a Political Process: From Ulbricht to Honecker to German Unification 6. Outcomes of Social Policy 7. The GDR in Comparative Perspective: A Socialist Work 8. Continuity and Discontinuity in East Germany's Social Policy
The Politics of German Unification. Social, Economic, Financial, Constitutional and International Issues 1. Introduction 2. The International Context of German Unification 3. Social Policy in the Process of Unification: An Assessment 4. The Economic, Financial and Constitutional Problem of Unification