Civil Society in Germany: Its Conceptualization and Organization
Germany has been an important country in the emergence and development of social policy practices and the discipline of social policy science and as such has a characteristic position as a welfare state. This is reflected in the field of civil society, with Germany having been analyzed in the litera...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/7C0789A5A0704B838D3B99D5A9D2043F |
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| Summary: | Germany has been an important country in the emergence and development of social policy practices and the discipline of social policy science and as such has a characteristic position as a welfare state. This is reflected in the field of civil society, with Germany having been analyzed in the literature as an example of a corporatist civil society regime, similar to comparative welfare state studies. In this regard, this study aims to determine the current state of civil society’s conceptualization and organization in Germany, and the main focus of this study involves the social policy-welfare state perspective. For this purpose, the study first analyzes the relationship between social policy and civil society on a conceptual level before evaluating the current situation in Germany through the historical context. As a result and in light of the data obtained from research conducted in recent years, the study observes growth to have occurred in Germany’s civil society organization, but this growth has also been accompanied by a structural transformation. In other words, the ‘corporatization’ and tendency toward ‘professionalization’ are observed to have gained weight in German civil society organizations. |
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| ISSN: | 1304-0103 2548-0405 |