CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Pasche, Christian |
|---|---|
| Title | Contemporary German Family Policy between Socialist and Christian Conservative Legacies |
| Summary | Since unification incorporated the formerly socialist East with its particular traditions in state-sponsored childcare and family-work conciliation into the capitalist West, all-German family policy in the Federal Republic has undergone a number of changes. While the literature provides numerous accounts of the historical and contemporary development of family policy in East and West, it leaves open the question whether and how socialist legacies from the East may have influenced the developmental trajectory of this policy field in the all-German polity after unification. This thesis is meant to fill this gap by conducting an in-depth case study, based on primary documents and qualitative interviews with policy-makers. It first establishes the differences between pre-unification family policy in the two Germanys, in order to then explain which transmission mechanisms have saved over certain ideas, institutions, and attitudes from socialist times into contemporary family policy-making. The analysis shows that East German legacies were carried over through East German politicians, infrastructural and attitudinal remnants, legal-institutional misfits between East and West, as well as intra-organizational persuasion processes. These legacies were able to influence all-German family policy-making in a mostly indirect manner, acting as catalysts for the introduction of new policy models. |
| Supervisor | Bohle, Dorothee |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/pasche_christian.pdf |
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