Internetseminar: Reforming the Welfare State and Social Security Systems: USA, Germany, Chile - A comparison

Themes for Papers

Papers from Denver:

1. A brief analysis of Esping-Anderson's "The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism" as a measurement for the commodification of labor in contemporary welfare states

2. "Women and Children on Welfare: Fact Versus Stereotypical Perceptions."

3. The Welfare State-A Commitment Against Violence

4. The Color of Welfare

5. A critique of the history of American welfare as a determining factor for contemporary attitudes towards welfare and social policies

6. " Ending Welfare As We Know It Versus Ending Poverty As We Know It"

7. Social Policy in a European Context

8. Gender Policy in the German Welfare State

9. The Challenge to Germany's Welfare State

10. Chilean Economic Reform: Beneficial for the Upper Class or for All?

11. An analysis of Chile's pensions scheme in a post-Pinochet society

12. Globalization and the Welfare State

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"Welfare Capitalism" and "Social Capitalism" - Comparing the Ideals of Welfare States (Tübingen)

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Germany

1. The German Social Welfare State

• The Constitutional Fundamentals
• The German Social Market Economy and it’s Transformation
• The Competitiveness Debate

2. The Impact of German Reunification on Social Security

3. The Impact of Globalization on Social Security

4. The Educational System

• The "Dual" Model of Professional Formation
• Flexibility of Educational Institutions
• The Formation of Elites

5. Health Care Reform

6. The Crisis of the Job Market

• Unemployment and it’s causes
• Options of Job Creation
• The Debate on Labor Market Improvement

7. Social Aspects of the "Grand Tax Reform"

8. Pensions Reform – The Debate

9. " Alliance for Job Creation" - a suitable tool to improve the employment situation in Germany?

10. The Dutch "Polder Model" - An answer to the German crisis?

11. The Third Way

USA

1. The Historical Development of Welfare Capitalism in the United States

2. The Ideological Debate on Social Security

3. The Balanced Budget and it’s Impact on Social Policies

4. Poverty and Statistics in the US – Problems of Statistical Assessment

5. Health Care in the US

• Medicare and Medicaid
• The Failed Clinton-Reform
• Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO)

6. Job Market Structures and Trends

• Labor Relations
• Job Control Unionism
• A New Dawn for Organized Labor?
• Unemployment Insurance

7. Private Actors in Social Security

8. Retirement Pensions and its reforms in the U.S.

Chile

1. From the "Socialist Experiment" to the Military Regime – the Structural Rupture of Social Systems

2. The Macroeconomic Stabilization of the Chilean Economy as Precondition for Structural Reform (Balancing the Budget, Debt Reduction, Control of Inflation)

3. Social Equity

4. Labor Relations since the Return to Democracy

• labor unions
• employers

5. The 1991 Tax Reform

6. The Restructuring of the Chilean Pension System

7. The Chilean capital-based Pension System – A Model for Other Nations?

8. Productivity and Equity—Productivity versus Equity Couple or Dilemma?

9. Privatization of education in Chile

10. Poverty reduction in Chile

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