Income Maintenance and Institutional Forms: A Comparison of France, West Germany, Italy and Britain 1945-90

In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 299-318

Abstract

A comparative analysis of income maintenance policies in France, West Germany, Italy, & GB, highlighting pension policies in the period 1945-1975 & responses to "new poverty" 1975-1990. Patterns of growth in social security expenditure in the two periods are compared, using Richard Titmuss's (1974) typology of institutional, industrial achievement, & residual systems of welfare to trace shifts in institutional forms of welfare administration. Attempts to debureaucratize welfare delivery in the 1980s are also compared. 6 Tables, 2 Figures, 77 References. Adapted from the source document.