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| Welfare state: In a welfare state the government takes responsibility for the well-being of its citizens through social programs. It provides services like healthcare, education, unemployment benefits, and social security, aiming to ensure a basic standard of living and address social inequalities. see also Healthcare system, Education, Inequalities._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Welfare State - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 510 Welfare State/Habermas: the social, i.e. initially private consequential burdens of the class conflict cannot be kept away from the political public. Thus the welfare state becomes the political content of mass democracy. This shows that the political system cannot emancipate itself from the utility value orientations of the citizens without trace; it cannot produce mass loyalty to any extent, but must also make verifiable offers of legitimacy with the social state program. Tariff policy: the legal institutionalisation of collective bargaining has become the basis of a reformist policy that has led to pacification of the class conflict by the welfare state. IV 511 Problem: Social policy faces the dilemma that is expressed at the fiscal level in the zero-sum game of public budgets for social policy tasks on the one hand and for tasks of economic and growth-promoting infrastructure policy on the other. Both the direct negative effects of the capitalist employment system and the dysfunctional side effects of economic growth controlled by capital accumulation on the lifeworld must be absorbed. The welfare state must not violate the conditions of stability and mobility requirements, because corrective interventions generally only do not trigger reactions on the part of the privileged groups if they do not affect vested rights. This means that not only the scope of welfare state services, but also the nature and organisation of services of general interest must be adapted to the structure of the exchange regulated by money and power IV 512 between the formally organised areas of action and their environments. The accumulation process must only be guarded by state intervention and must not be changed in any way. Austromarxism: interprets this as the result of a class compromise. Representatives: Otto Bauer, Karl Renner. HabermasVsAustromarxism: Rather, the social opposition with its institutionalization loses its structuring power for the lifeworld of social groups. IV 515 Democracy/social state/Habermas: mass social state democracy is an arrangement that makes the class antagonism still built into the economic system harmless under one condition, namely that the growth dynamics guarded by state interventionism does not slacken._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28