How Economic Ideas Evolve - The Impact of Religion on the German and Italian Welfare State

"This book demonstrates the link between religious ideas and the diverging development of economies and welfare states in Europe. The work provides an analysis of the contextual factors that steered religious development and expands historical sociology by focusing on religious ideas and their long term developmental trajectories in politics"-- Provided by publisher.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Catholicism and the formation of the German welfare state; 3. Catholicism and the Italian Welfare State in the nineteenth century; 4. Protestantism and Catholicism in German postwar reconstruction; 5. The influence of Catholicism on Italian post war reconstruction; 6. What's left? Religion and welfare policies in the twenty-first century in Italy and Germany; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Josef Hien is Researcher in Political Science at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm and a member of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Mid Sweden University. He is interested in the connection between politico-economic institutions, religion, ideologies, and cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Josef Hien, Josef (Mid Sweden University and Institute f Hien
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781009569262
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0956926-2
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Political Economy, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology