Basic Income - From Vision to Creeping Transformation of the Welfare State

Prof. Dr. Rolf G. Heinze was Chair of General Sociology, Work and Economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) from 1988 to 2021; since the summer semester of 2021, he has been Senior Professor there and continues to be Managing Scientific Director of the Institute of Housing, Real Estate, Urban and Regional Development (InWIS) at RUB.Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) department and teaches sociology at Freie Universität Berlin.

• Crises as a focal point of socio-economic problems.- Conjunctures of the welfare state crisis: the cracks are deepening.- The silent transformation to the transfer and investment state.- From "muddling through" to policy change: obstacles and success factors.- Risks of continuing the status quo without a change of strategy.- Conclusion and outlook: Universalist welfare state as an emancipatory guiding model.