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Förändringarna i den tyska familjepolitiken : Ett steg bort från den konservativa välfärdsmodellen? / The Changes in the German Family Politics : A step away from a Conservative Welfare State?

<p>The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ongoing changes in German family policy. It explores the issue of whether the German welfare state, in this policy field, can still be regarded as a conservative welfare model or rather approaches a more liberal or social democratic model. A qualitative method is used to analyze the material, especially from the German government, including press releases, other public documents and also articles from the political weekly magazines Der Spiegel and Die Zeit. The changes analyzed are the new parental benefit, the expansion of child care, the concept of whole-day schools and the system of joint taxation. The point of departure is Gösta Esping-Andersen’s categorization of three types of welfare states: the social democratic, the conservative and the liberal. Esping-Andersen uses two tools, decommodification and social stratification, to determine which welfare model a country is placed in. My analysis of German family policy shows that the German welfare model is going to be more towards a social democratic model than a conservative welfare model.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:sh-1249
Date January 2007
CreatorsHögselius, Carl
PublisherSödertörn University College, School of Social Sciences, Huddinge : Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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