DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL GOVERNMENT IN THE FRG IN THE 1960s – MIDDLE 1970s


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The article studies the process of social development of the state in the FRG in the 1960s – mid 1970-s during the period of achieving the limits of its growth. The concept “social government” is associated with social-political and social-economic system of a number of highly developed states of the world, first of all West-European, that secure the highest level of social wellbeing for their citizens. One of such models is the Federal Republic of Germany where for the first time in the world constitutional practice a social government as a political and state-legal institution has been established (art. 20 and 28 of the General Law). Interrelation between the process of ideology and practice of social government establishment in the FRG in the given period of time has been researched, and approaches of various social-political forces towards the model of social-state development have been analyzed. The author draws particular attention to the reasons that caused the fact that the system of the population social protection – generally formalized in the period of German “economic miracle” of the 1950s and more developed in the following decades – have been extending and expanding, becoming a heavy burden for such a powerful economic organism as the economy of the Federative Republic. The article presents natural conclusions about overload of the FRG with social commitments which impede stable and progressive development of German economy, and that it is a serious social-economic and political problem of consolidated Germany.

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Denis Vladimirovich Ivanchuk

Togliatti branch of The Russian Academy of National Economy and State Service by the President of the Russian Federation, Togliatti

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candidate of historical sciences, assistant professor of the Department «Humanitarian, Natural and Law Disciplines»

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