Practice question · Multiple choice
Bismarck introduced social insurance before Germany was fully democratic, explicitly to undercut the socialist movement. Why does that matter for Marshall's sequence?
Hints
- Marshall's order is civil, then political, then social.
- Germany got the third before the second.
Show the answer
C. It reverses his order, with social rights arriving before political ones
Why
Because it reverses the order. Marshall described Britain, and his sequence was read for decades as a general path; Germany got social rights before political ones, from a chancellor whose aim was to weaken the left. A sequence that inverts in the country that inspired most continental systems is a description, not a law.
Practise The Welfare State: Rise, Crisis, Typologies
The app has 5 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Political Science I is free to start.
More questions on The Welfare State: Rise, Crisis, Typologies
- Sort each characteristic by the welfare regime it describes.
- Predictions that the welfare state would be dismantled after the 1970s crisis were largely borne out.
- Which are among the explanations for why states built welfare systems?
- Complete the account of welfare regimes.
- In what year did Bismarck introduce sickness insurance in Germany?
- T. H. Marshall treated social rights as the culmination of citizenship, but Bismarck introduced social…
- Arrange these developments in the welfare state in order.
- Beveridge produced his report in 1942, in the middle of the Second World War.