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[No Bert]

I am concerned with the question, how the subsidiarity principle was interpreted over the decades by the actors in the German welfare system and what the consequences for social work(ers) were/are (in Germany).

I am trying to get hold of as much interpretations of the subsidiarity principle in this context as possible, though from local, regional and federal government side, from the big welfare institutions (Spitzenverbände) on every level and also from science. Although this is not going to become a triple helix research (which would as well be interesting, more info about triple helix research e.g. here), I will highlight different positions and the struggle for power in this discoursive field (discoursive not in the meaning of Habermas, but post-structuralistic approach). With this results I will hopefully be able to set some specific connections between the development of the German welfare system on the one hand and the profession as well as the discipline of social work in Germany on the other hand.

I will be very happy to be pointed to concrete references dealing with the subsidiarity principle in the German welfare state and/or in international contexts.

I am also willing to discuss this topic here, if someone is interested.