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Assessing Welfare State Change: The German Social Insurance State between Reciprocity and Solidarity

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  • Leitner, Sigrid
  • Lessenich, Stephan

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The analytic framework used here to study welfare state change builds upon the distinction of two fundamentally opposed logics of social exchange: the logic of reciprocity and of solidarity. The approach enables to assess the complexity and ambivalence of policy change in advanced welfare states. Using recent social policy reform in Germany as an illustration of the analytical capacity of our approach, it is shown that change can be detected in two different dimensions. One type of change is in the overall mix between reciprocity-based insurance and solidarity-based assistance programmes which makes up the specific profile of a national welfare regime. Another type is in the balance between elements of reciprocity and solidarity within social insurance schemes. This approach can be replicated with any of the developed welfare states of the OECD world.

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  • Leitner, Sigrid & Lessenich, Stephan, 2003. "Assessing Welfare State Change: The German Social Insurance State between Reciprocity and Solidarity," Journal of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 23(3), pages 325-347, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jnlpup:v:23:y:2003:i:03:p:325-347_00
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    1. Gianluca Busilacchi & Benedetta Giovanola, 2023. "Contemporary European Welfare State Transformations and the Risk of Erosion of Social Rights: A Normative Analysis of the Social Investment Approach," Societies, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-12, January.
    2. Damian Walczak & Dorota Krupa, 2020. "Exchange Transactions and Socioeconomic Determinants of Solidarity: The Case of Post-Solidarity Poland," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(3), pages 364-377.

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