Renegotiating the Welfare State by Frans van Waarden

Author:Frans van Waarden [Waarden, Frans van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: welfare; corporotisation
ISBN: 9780415223454
Amazon: B004747AG2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-04-16T18:30:00+00:00

Notes

1 Cited from the web page of the Federal President (http://www.bundespraesident. de/n/nph-b/reden/de/berlin.htm?reden/deutsch1997.map)

2 See Czada (1998) for these details and for the following.

3 Wirtschaftsstandort means the local conditions for investments. The Standort Deutschland debate focused on maintaining Germany’s competitiveness in a globalizing economy by the removal of disincentives for foreign and domestic investors.

4 According to the established jurisprudence, collective agreements have precedence over legal stipulations if they are more favourable to workers (Gunstigkeitsprinzip).

5 An elaborate organizational chart can indeed be found on the special internet homepage <http:www.buendnis.de> presented by the Federal Press and Information Office.

6 Olaf Gersemann and Monika Dunkel ‘Niederlande - Nachbar mit Mumm: Die Hollander demonstrieren, wie man den erstarrten Wohlfahrtsstaat zuruckschraubt und zukunftstauglich macht’, in Wirtschaftswoche, 20/2 (1997), 22.

7 Some authors however contest the description of the health system as corporatist (Perschke-Hartmann 1994).

8 On the policy community of old age pensions, see Nullmeier and Rub (1993).

9 There are still other types of health funds within the GKV system, mostly for specific groups, such as the health insurance funds established by firms (Betriebskrankenkassen). Like all other GKV health funds they are now equally open to all wage earners. Civil servants are exempted from compulsory health insurance: about half of their health costs are directly reimbursed by the state, and for the rest they may take private insurance, similar to self-employed persons.

10 For details, see Alber (1992).

11 Including hospitals in cost containment was for many years difficult because the Lander (member states of the federation) were concerned about their jurisdiction over the planning of capacities and investments in the hospital sector. The escalation of costs has finally led them to reconsider their interests (Dohler and Manow-Borgwardt 1992).

12 This procedure applies to about two-thirds of all federal legislation, including most major tax laws. In all other cases, the Federal Council has a suspensory veto (that can in turn be overridden by the Diet), but for such a veto the CDU could not muster sufficient majorities.

References

Alber, Jens (1992) Das Gesundheitswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Entwicklung, Struktur und Funktionsweise, Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Alber, Jens and Brigitte Bernardi-Schenkluhn (1992) Westeuropaische Gesundheitssy-steme im Vergleich: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Schweiz, Frankreich, Italien, Grofibri-tannien, Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Bergmann, Joachim et al. (1975) Gewerkschaften in der Bundesrepublik: gewerkschaftliche Lohnpolitik zwischen Mitgliederinteressen und okonomischen Systemzwangen, Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Cameron, David R. (1984) ‘Social Democracy, Corporatism, Labour Quiescence, and the Representation of Economic Interest in Advanced Capitalist Society’, in John Goldthorpe (ed.) Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 143-78.

Czada, Roland (1998) ‘Vereinigungskrise und Standortdebatte. Der Beitrag der Wiedervereinigung zur Krise des westdeutschen Modells’, Leviathan, 26: 24-59.

Dohler, Marian (1990) Gesundheitspolitik nach der ‘Wende’: Policy-Netzwerke und ordnungs-politischer Strategiewechsel in Grofibritannien, den USA und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin: Sigma.

Dohler, Marian and Philip Manow (1997) Strukturbildung von Politikfeldern: das Beispiel bundesdeutscher Gesundheitspolitik seit den funfziger Jahren, Opladen: Leske & Budrich.

Dohler, Marian and Philip Manow-Borgwardt (1992) ‘Korporatisierung als gesund-heitspolitische Strategie’, Staatswissenschaften und Staatspraxis, 3: 64-106.

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard and Anke Hassel (1999) Striking Deals: Concertation in the Reform of Continental European Welfare States, MPIfG Discussion Paper 99/3, Max-Planck-Institut fur Gesellschaftsforschung, Koln.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.