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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. Religion 2. Religion
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3. Myth 3. Myth
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4. The Social Market Economy 4. The Social Market Economy
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5. Conclusion 5. Conclusion
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26 Myth, Religion and Social Market Economy
Get accessPhilip Manow is Professor of Comparative Political Economy at the University of Bremen and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He has published work on the German political system, especially on its electoral system, democratic theory and political theory, and the comparative political economy of welfare states, amongst others. He held previous positions at the Universities of Konstanz and Heidelberg and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.
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Published:20 October 2022
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Abstract
This chapter addresses the religious underpinnings of Ordoliberalism. It argues that its historical origins and ideological profile must be understood against the background of Germany’s religious cleavage between a once dominant Protestant state elite and rising political Catholicism, both in the form of the Catholic centre party with its central role in the Weimar Republic, and in the form of the Catholic worker movement. This conflict became particularly visible in the political struggles over social legislation, which extended into the early Federal Republic. In contrast to many accounts, this chapter argues that Ordoliberalism ultimately failed as a political project, and was largely unsuccessful in shaping Germany’s economic post-war order. Its continued relevance is largely ideological as the founding myth of the German post-war social market economy.
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