Globalizing Welfare
An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue
Edited by Stein Kuhnle, Per Selle and Sven E.O. Hort
Chapter 14: The future role of civil society in a welfare state: perspectives from Germany
Helmut K. Anheier
Abstract
The chapter provides an assessment of the future of German civil society. It argues that the future depends on four developments: the modernization of the welfare state through private-public partnerships; the role of community in an increasingly secular society; the role of transparency and accountability in the political-administrative sphere; and openness towards social innovation. Changes to the concepts of subsidiarity, emphasis on self-organization and the modernization of communal economic traditions are not only implicit in scenarios for the future, but required. The more spheres of civic freedom are based on an individual right to bear responsibility for oneself and for others, the less contradictory and conflictual the future of civil society is expected to be.
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