Mimicking the Opposition: Bismarck's Welfare State and the Rise of the Socialists
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Keywords
welfare state; socialism; government; opposition; issue ownership; voting behavior; Germany;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
- H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- N44 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: 1913-
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2024-01-01 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EUR-2024-01-01 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HIS-2024-01-01 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-POL-2024-01-01 (Positive Political Economics)
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