Author: | ISBN: | 9781317998549 | |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | July 16, 2014 |
Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
Author: | |
ISBN: | 9781317998549 |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Publication: | July 16, 2014 |
Imprint: | Routledge |
Language: | English |
This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in Germany in illuminating historical and structural contexts.
Showing how economic reform has become the central issue on the German political agenda, raising contentious issues of policy management and posing deeper questions about political beliefs and identities. It also examines the politics of the reform process, outlining competing views about the root causes of Germany’s economic problems, the appropriate policy responses, and the distribution of costs. It situates the reform process in the wider context of the decline of the German economic model (Modell Deutschland) and Germany’s transition from European ‘pace-setter’ to economic ‘laggard’.
Particular attention is paid to the following key questions:
This book was previously published as a special issue of German Politics.
This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in Germany in illuminating historical and structural contexts.
Showing how economic reform has become the central issue on the German political agenda, raising contentious issues of policy management and posing deeper questions about political beliefs and identities. It also examines the politics of the reform process, outlining competing views about the root causes of Germany’s economic problems, the appropriate policy responses, and the distribution of costs. It situates the reform process in the wider context of the decline of the German economic model (Modell Deutschland) and Germany’s transition from European ‘pace-setter’ to economic ‘laggard’.
Particular attention is paid to the following key questions:
This book was previously published as a special issue of German Politics.