Abstract
The decision-making structure of the polity is decisive for the political viability of reform proposals. Generally, high institutional barriers in policy-making characterise the German political system, making major policy reforms difficult. The reforms not only by the Red-Green alliance but also by the preceding Kohl government were constrained by the rigidities of the German polity (Section 1). However, high institutional barriers in policy-making do not prevent paradigmatic policy changes. Recent labour market reforms took place in a specific social and labour market policy discourse, providing the ideational basis for policy formulation and development. The core argument is that the social and labour market policy paradigms informing policy-makers had changed, whereby comprehensive changes in the policy were triggered and blockages associated with veto points were resolved (Section 2).KeywordsLabour MarketWelfare StateLabour Market PolicyVeto PlayerActivate Labour Market PolicyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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