This concept paper aims to explain the challenges of social protection systematisation, drawing on global lessons in order to strengthen EU Development Cooperation’s support for inclusive, nationally owned, and sustainable social protection policies and programmes within partner countries. In...

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, die Kostenstrukturen und den Finanzbedarf ausgewählter Träger der überörtlichen Sozialhilfe zu analysieren. Ausgehend von der speziellen Problematik der "Kostenexplosion" bei der überörtlichen Sozialhilfe im Freistaat Sachsen werden in dieser Studie die...

Comparative welfare state research has argued for some time that it makes a difference in regards to the specific welfare state design whether Social Democrats or Christian Democrats are in government. The theory is based on the fact that historically the social policy aims of Social Democrats...

This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...