From the Conservative welfare state to an 'uncertain something else': German pension politics in comparative perspective

A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? : The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe

“…If analyzed in their global context, the abovementioned characteristics are evidence for a significant degree of cohesion among these welfare systems in transition and may allow for the emergence of a new and unique welfare regime (Cerami 2006), in which different worlds of welfare coexist and are recombined together. To use a definition recently provided by Lamping and Rüb (2004) for Germany , the welfare regime in Central and Eastern Europe can, therefore, be described in terms of a 'recombinant welfare system' 7 , where Bismarckian features remain preponderant. …”

The Welfare State: A Regulatory Perspective

“…It has, however, been mentioned in passing, for example, in an essay on liberty and the welfare state: Kliemt (, p. 164) maintains that the basic elements of the regulatory welfare state include both a process of public provision and a set of regulations. A study of Germany's pension reform argues that the reform gave birth to ‘a new double role for the state in pension policy: a combination of both a redistributive welfare state and a regulatory welfare state that constitutes and regulates “welfare”’ (Lamping and Rub , p. 174). Lamping and Rub conflate redistribution and fiscal expenditure, but they identify the basic trend.…”

The Matching Problem within Comparative Welfare State Research: How to Bridge Abstract Theory and Specific Hypotheses

“…Recalibration seems to be a much less studied topic, but there are scattered (mainly German) examples, such as Lamping and Ru¨b's (2004) study of the restructuring of the German pension system and Leibfried and Obinger's (2003) analysis of the direction of social policy reforms in Germany.…”