Wohlfahrtsverbände, Dritter Sektor und Zivilgesellschaft

Merchel, Joachim

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“…However, the structure of providers varies widely between sub-sectors and regions. An estimated 42% of all social services in Germany are delivered by non-profit providers, 33% by public providers and 23% by private for-profit providers (Merchel 2011 , p. 245). Especially in elderly care, private for-profit providers have become significantly important.…”

Section: Social Services Sectors In Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Restructuring of Wage-Setting Fields between Transnational Competition and Coordination

Pernicka¹,

Glassner²,

Dittmar³

2018

Österreich Z Soziol

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This article addresses the restructuring of wage-setting institutions in social services in Austria and Germany and seeks to better understand the forces shaping their changes and continuities. Social services include a wide range of services such as labour market policies or elderly care provided by state, private for-and non-profit organisations. Despite similar pressures resulting from European and national politics of economic liberalisation and austerity and the emergence of transnational corporations and labour migration wage-setting in social services turned out to follow different institutional paths. This article expands conventional theorising by using a social field perspective to uncover the role of (institutionalised) power relations and conflict dynamics in shaping the wage-setting institutions. While existing institutions and particular power relations between regional and national actors helped create a common wage-setting field in Austrian social services, the interactions between national and regional, and, to a lesser extent, transnational field participants have led to fragmented and still contested institutions of wage setting in German social services. Keywords

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Section: Social Services Sectors In Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Restructuring of Wage-Setting Fields between Transnational Competition and Coordination

Pernicka¹,

Glassner²,

Dittmar³

2018

Österreich Z Soziol

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“…24 Alongside the growth of the German welfare state, the associations developed into a remarkable consortium of providers in key areas of social services (see Table 1). 25 The success story of the Free Welfare Associations is closely linked to the interpretation of the 'principle of subsidiarity' in Germany. Based in Catholic social doctrine, the principle was originally designed to protect individual rights against any powerful intervention from the state.…”

Section: Historical Background Of the 'Dual System' And The Free Welfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Service Provision in the US and Germany: Convergence or Path Dependency?

Zimmer¹,

Smith²

2014

German Politics

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With a special focus on social services, the article discusses the topic of convergence versus path dependency of state welfare arrangements in the US and Germany. In both countries, social services cover a broad spectrum of activities. In the US as well as in Germany, these services are to a large extent provided by non-profit organisations, although the two countries belong to very different welfare regimes. With a special eye on social services, the article provides an overview of the history of the two welfare states; it refers to current developments, of which the shift towards private commercial social service provision is most prominent. Against this background, the article comes to the conclusion that there is no simple answer to the question of path-dependency versus convergence. Indeed, in both countries commercial provision of social services is on the increase; however, current developments in Germany and the US do not reflect thoroughly the path-dependent or the convergence approach of depicting change.

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Morality Policy as a Most Likely Case for Institutional Entrepreneurship

Mettang

2022

Street-Level Workers as Institutional Entrepreneurs

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Wohlfahrtsverbände, Dritter Sektor und Zivilgesellschaft

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

The Restructuring of Wage-Setting Fields between Transnational Competition and Coordination

The Restructuring of Wage-Setting Fields between Transnational Competition and Coordination

Social Service Provision in the US and Germany: Convergence or Path Dependency?

Morality Policy as a Most Likely Case for Institutional Entrepreneurship

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