Incrementalism and reform waves: The case of social service reform in the Federal Republic of Germany*

Bönker, Frank; Wollmann, Hellmut

doi:10.1080/13501769608407043

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“…Moreover, public agencies should support and cooperate with welfare associations. The regulations of the Sozialgesetzbuch XII and its predecessors guaranteed the support of German governments for welfare associations throughout our entire study period (Bonker & Wollmann, 1996). Second, support for volunteering is also institutionalized in German tax regulations.…”

Section: Policies For Volunteers Of All Ages In Germanymentioning

confidence: 97%

Policies for older volunteers: A study of Germany and Italy, 1990–2008

Komp

Kersbergen

Tilburg

2013

Journal of Aging Studies

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Older people increase their well-being and contribute to the community when they volunteer. Therefore, policy-makers sometimes consider supporting older volunteers. However, they reach different conclusions on whether they should introduce policies for older volunteers, and on what policy would be the most suitable. This article studies how policies for older volunteers emerged in Germany and Italy, both countries having one of the oldest populations in the world. It explores the political discourse on older volunteers, and how this discourse translates into policies. To do this, the article presents data collected in expert interviews and document analysis. Findings show that German policy-makers stress the contribution of volunteering to older people's well-being and have introduced policies for older volunteers. Italian policy-makers, in contrast, frame older volunteers as social service providers and have decided not to single out specific age groups in their policies for volunteers. Moreover, the policies are influenced by the policy-makers' perceptions and path-dependencies, meaning policies and institutions that were introduced in the past. These findings suggest that whether or not policies for older volunteers emerge depends less on the characteristics of the older population and more on the society and its political traditions.

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Section: Policies For Volunteers Of All Ages In Germanymentioning

confidence: 97%

Policies for older volunteers: A study of Germany and Italy, 1990–2008

Komp

Kersbergen

Tilburg

2013

Journal of Aging Studies

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“…New legislations changed the way in which public resources are transferred from government agencies to service providers (Bo¨nker and Wollmann 1996). A new ''contract culture'' was born that offered more targeted and fixed-term arrangements between government agencies and non-profit associations rather than the previous open-ended arrangements (Evers and Stru¨nck 2002).…”

Section: Disorganization Trends In the German Social Sector: Two Exammentioning

confidence: 99%

The creeping disorganization of welfare capitalism or what is the future of Germany's social sector?

Bode¹

2003

Review of Social Economy

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Drawing on the debate over the destiny of the coordinated market economy versus the expanding liberal market model, this article argues that the analysis of the re-regulation of capitalism must address the embedding infrastructure of the market. Since social support sectors are an important part of this embedding infrastructure the article focuses on organizational change within Germany's social sector as a basis for a new perspective on the future of German welfare capitalism and develops a complimentary understanding of the “social sector economy.” The empirical discussion focuses on organizations providing social support services in a direct or indirect way, on the changing environments in which they operate, and on their strategies for coping with change. The discussion indicates that the German model is slowly but surely evolving toward a “disorganized” welfare capitalism shaped by both formal institutional stickiness and considerable change of the social sector's service provisions. While this change leads to more heterogeneous outcomes in terms of welfare it is also conducive to social innovation.social economy, welfare, Germany, non-profit organizations, models of capitalism, organizational change,

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“…42 Since the mid-1980s, the welfare associations have increasingly lost their virtual monopoly as non-state providers of social services, partly to self-help groups but mainly to private providers who have increased their market share to about 50 per cent in the larger cities (higher in the former East Germany). As a consequence, the relationship between local authority social services departments and nonstate providers is becoming increasingly governed by market-like contracts.…”

Section: Germanymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rather, the success of reform in these policy areas suggests that the condition for effective policy change is a widely shared ideological consensus on the part of the main political parties in the face of exogeneous shocks. 44 An alternative explanation of the modest fate of neo-liberal reforms stresses the selective nature of the diffusion of new right ideas in the face of the enduring strength of Germany's ordo-liberal tradition, as institutionalised in the social market economy. 45 As in France, neo-liberal reform in general and public service reform in particular has taken a managerial, rather than doctrinaire, form.…”

Section: Germanymentioning

confidence: 99%

Public service reform: A comparative west European perspective

Clark¹

2000

West European Politics

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Incrementalism and reform waves: The case of social service reform in the Federal Republic of Germany*

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

Policies for older volunteers: A study of Germany and Italy, 1990–2008

Policies for older volunteers: A study of Germany and Italy, 1990–2008

The creeping disorganization of welfare capitalism or what is the future of Germany's social sector?

Public service reform: A comparative west European perspective

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