Vol. 6 No. 1, March 2010

Index

• Editorial.
• Towards institutional gridlock? The limitations of Germany's consensus democracy.
• Introduction: farewell to Bismarck or moving forward back to Bismarck? Transformations of the German welfare state.
• Activating labor market and social policies in Germany: from status protection to basic income support.
• Health care reform in Germany.
• German pension policies: the transformation of a defined benefit system into ... what?
• Implications of the activation paradigm on poverty and social exclusion in Germany: facts, hypotheses, uncertainties.
• Farewell to the family as we know it: family policy change in Germany.