The Law of the Activating Welfare State

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5099-0024-4
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

The most profound reform of social policy in Germany during the last decade was the labour market reforms 2003/4. It was initiated by a reform commission chaired by Peter Hartz (Volkswagen) and its motifs and results are still controversial today.

This book identifies these reforms by illustrating the international and European context. It unveils parallel developments in the Netherlands, Denmark, the United Kingdom and France, and shows to which extent the German reform had been driven and enhanced by the European Employment Strategy.

The study does not focus on the details of the reform but its new elements: case, management, conditional social benefits, obligations to cooperate and sanctions. It shows that its leitmotif is not neoliberal but communitarian.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eichenhofer, Eberhard

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Recht mehrerer Jurisdiktionen, Synopsen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Sozialrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. The research question

II. Activation in Europe

III. Foundations of activation - labour and social benefits

IV. Self-responsibility
V. Social administration bound by statute or by contract?

VI. Sanctions in case of a failure to cooperate

VII. The level of the benefits in the activating welfare state

VIII. Conclusion - the activating welfare state and the law

Über Autor(innen)

Eichenhofer, Eberhard
Eberhard Eichenhofer is Professor of Social Law at Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena.