Notes
Translated by Gretchen Wiesehan, Ph.D., Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.
This essay was written within the context of my work with the European Commission‐sponsored project ‘Family and Welfare State in Europe’, which is coordinated at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)) under the direction of Professor Peter Flora. I would especially like to thank Thomas Bahle and Astrid Pfenning of the MZES for support from this project. For their comments on an earlier draft of this paper, I would also like to thank my dissertation supervisor, Jürgen Kohl (University of Heidelberg), Birgit Fix (Mannheim), Gert Albert (Heidelberg), Peter T. Welsh (Loughborough), Andreas Hoff (London) and Gudny B. Eydal (Göteborg).