@article{Schröder_Voigtlän_2012, place={Berlin, DE}, title={Ringen um den Regelsatz: Erwerbslosenproteste und die Neubestimmung der Hartz-IV-Höhe}, volume={42}, url={https://prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/18}, DOI={10.32387/prokla.v42i166.18}, abstractNote={<p>In 2010 the German constitutional court<br>obligated legislative and government to revaluate the rate of welfare payments. Hence a window<br>of opportunity opened for poor people’s movement activists to initiate a broad debate<br>on scarce benefits in the German workfare regime of „Hartz IV” and to promote significantly<br>higher benefits. We discuss the crucial factors of their campaign’s failure such as the weakness<br>of the hardly existing movement of the unemployed, the interests of parties and administration,<br>and the important politico-economic function of „Hartz IV”.</p>}, number={166}, journal={PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft}, author={Schröder, Christian and Voigtlän, Leiv Eirik}, year={2012}, month={Jan.}, pages={65–76} }