Author: Offe, Claus
Title: Modernity and the State: East, West
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii, 270 pp, Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.. Minor rubbing. A small faint spot to cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Modernity & Self-Limitation: The Utopia of the Zero Option: Modernity & Modernization as Normative Political Criteria; Bindings, Shackles, Brakes: On Self-Limitation Strategies; State Theory: Continuities & Reorientation: The Theory of the State in Search of Its Subject Matter: Observations on Current Debates; Social-Scientific Aspects of the Regulation-Deregulation Debate; Constitutional Policy in Search of the "Will of the People"; The Politics of Social Welfare: State Action & Structures of Collective Will Formation: Elements of the Social-Scientific Theory of the State; Beyond the Labor Market: Reflections on a New Definition of "Domestic" Welfare Production; Democracy Against the Welfare State? The Acceptance & Legitimacy of Strategic Options in Social Policy; A Basic Income Guaranteed by the State: A Need of the Movement in Social Policy; The New East: The Politics of Social Policy in East European Transitions: Antecedents, Agents, & Agendas of Reform; After the Democratic Revolution: New Burdens of Proof.

Keywords: Political Philosophy, Social Theory, Policy, Welfare State, Politics, , , ,