The origins of the authoritarian welfare state in Prussia
Subtitle: conservatives, bureaucracy, and the social question, 1815-70
By: Hermann Beck.
Series: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Public welfare -- Germany -- Prussia -- History.; Authoritarianism -- Germany -- Prussia -- History.
Description: The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia investigates the complex traditions of ideas, institutions, and social policy measures in the Prussian welfare state. The introduction examines the social preconditions and perceptions of nineteenth-century Prussia, and later sections of the volume consider Prussian conservatives, the bureaucracy and its political currents, and the social policies Prussia adopted.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-285) and index.