Mass warfare and the welfare: State causal mechanisms and effects

Arbeitspapier

The question whether and how warfare has influenced the development of advanced Western welfare states is contested. So far, scholarly work either focused on the trade-off between military and social spending or on case studies of individual countries. What is missing, however, is a systematic comparative approach that is informed by an explicit consideration of the underlying causal mechanisms. This paper outlines an agenda for a comparative analysis of the warfare-welfare state nexus. By distinguishing between three different phases (war preparation, warfare, and post-war period) it provides a comprehensive analysis of possible causal mechanisms linking war and the welfare state and provides preliminary empirical evidence for war waging, occupied and neutral countries in the age of mass warfare stretching from ca. the 1860s to the 1960s.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ZeS-Arbeitspapier ; No. 02/2014

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Obinger, Herbert ; Petersen, Klaus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Universität Bremen, Zentrum für Sozialpolitik (ZeS)
• (where): Bremen
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/100091
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET