Abstract

Germany can look back on sixty years of social jurisdiction, a modern welfare state that has been developed for almost as long and secures all citizens, and a parallel development of social policy research across all disciplines. We also have more than fifty years of domestic policy reorganisation through European integration behind us - and soon forty years of an "open" "statehood" embedded in the global market.
In this memorandum, the authors take stock of the German welfare state and its constitutional protection. A balance sheet that covers a wide range of legal, socio-political, economic and historical aspects.

Authors

Masuch, Peter; Spellbrink, Wolfgang; Becker, Ulrich; Leibfried, Stephan