Think-Tanks, Social Democracy and Social PolicyAn analysis of think-tanks in Britain and Germany and their role in the re-making of the British Labour party and Germany's Social Democrats as 'Third Way' parties. The part that think-tanks played in the creation of the the 'workfare state' in the 1990s and 2000s is also explored in this book. |
Contents
| 1959 | |
| 1966 | |
Politics Policy and Expertise | 1977 |
Welfare State Transformation | |
The British Case | |
The German Case | |
Still Playing the Game? | |
ThinkTanks as Interfaces between Policy Politics | |
Bibliography | |
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accessed activating actors advocacy think-tanks Alliance for Jobs Benchmarking Group benefit Bertelsmann Foundation Bertelsmann Stiftung Britain British centre centre-left chancellery civil servants civil service commissioners contributed debate Democracy Demos Demos's developed discourse coalition economic elections employers Employment Office equality of outcome experts federal FES interview funding Future Commission Gerhard Schröder German think-tank Germany’s Giddens Gordon Brown governmental Hartz Commission hegemony ideas important influence Institute intellectual Interview with analyst IPPR interview IPPR’s Keynesian Labour and SPD Labour Party labour-market policy Lafontaine Layard leadership London Managerkreis Marxism Today modernisation Mulgan neo-liberalism organisations party’s Patricia Hewitt policy advice policy agenda policymaking political parties politicians programmatic programme public sector reform Richard Layard Roland Berger role Schröder Social Democrats Social Exclusion social justice social policy society SPD’s special advisors tanks think-tank landscape Tony Blair trade unions unemployed United Kingdom welfare welfare-to-work