%0 eBook %A Stiller, Sabina. %I Amsterdam University Press %D 2010 %C Amsterdam %G English %B Changing welfare states. %@ 9789048511747 %@ 9048511747 %T Ideational leadership in German welfare state reform : how politicians and policy ideas transform resilient institutions %U http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=315480 %X The author of this study argues that key politicians and their policy ideas, through "ideational leadership", have played an important role in the passing of structural reforms in the change-resistant German welfare state.