1st Edition
Middle Class and Welfare State Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship
Introduction 1. The Middle Class: A Constructivist Perspective 2. Middle Class and Social and Political Theory: Old Heritage, Contemporary Variations 3. Middle Class and Theory of the Welfare State: Meanings of Welfare, Overlapping Consensus, and Target Group Constructions 4. Different Welfare Regimes, Different Middle Classes: On Methodology and Methods 5. Sweden: The Egalitarian Understanding of the Middle Class 6. Germany: The Conservative-Communitarian Understanding of the Middle Class 7. United Kingdom: The Libertarian-Multicultural Understanding of the Middle Class 8. Conclusion
Biography
Marlon Barbehön is Research Assistant (Postdoc) at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Marilena Geugjes is Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Michael Haus is Professor of Modern Political Theory at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.
