The origins of the authoritarian welfare state in Prussia : conservatives, bureaucracy, and the social question, 1815-70

The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia investigates the complex traditions of ideas, institutions, and social policy measures in the Prussian welfare state. The introduction examines the social preconditions and perceptions of nineteenth-century Prussia, and later sections of the volume consider Prussian conservatives, the bureaucracy and its political currents, and the social policies Prussia adopted.