The British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party :

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" The British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party : "
Wolff, Annabelle

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1102148
Doc. No	:	TLets729168
Main Entry	:	Wolff, Annabelle
Title & Author	:	The British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party :\ Wolff, Annabelle
College	:	University of Plymouth
Date	:	2017
student score	:	2017
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	Placing politics in time can greatly enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics. The question this thesis tries to answer is which mechanism led to the change in attitudes of the German Social Democratic Party and the British Labour Party towards the welfare state during the period from 1990 to 2010 and which effects in consequence these changes had on the existing welfare states. This thesis builds on the welfare state categorization work done by the Danish sociologist Gosta Esping-Andersen ("Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism"). However, the thesis focuses its in- depth analysis on Germany and the United Kingdom as prototypical conservative and liberal states. The heuristic text analysis, as well as the discourse analysis of party leader speeches, party manifestos and programmes, as well as the conducted expert interviews reveal that social, political, technological and economic changes during the given time period radically challenged and changed the norms and values of the welfare providers and with it the given welfare state, as well as the meaning, function and value of work. While many may argue that it was mainly the neo-liberal political and economic style that changed the attitude towards the welfare state, it was in fact just the trigger for a radical change in the interpretation of the basic social democratic values of freedom, justice and solidarity. This change made significant welfare state reforms inevitable and only with further changes can a balance and satisfaction within the welfare state system and within all welfare providing sectors (the state, the market, households and the third sector) be achieved. A new balanced social democratic approach for the 21st century is a ‘symmetrical welfare state’ that stands for mirror-image equality.
Subject	:	British Labour Party
	:	German Social Democratic Party
	:	welfare state
	:	welfare state reforms
Added Entry	:	University of Plymouth