Project

Financial and social policy analysis of a solidarity allowance

Period: 2006 – 2007

Financing: Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Project management and management: Prof. Dr. Michael Opielka, Dr. rer. oec. habil. Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn, and Dr. Bruno Kaltenborn
Publications: Michael Opielka / Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn, The solidarity citizens’ compensation. Financial and social policy analysis with recommendations for operationalization. Study commissioned by the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (with the collaboration of Bruno Kaltenborn), Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation 2006 – Book publication under the title “Das Solidarische Bürgergeld. Financial and social policy analysis of a reform concept – study commissioned by the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation “, in: Michael Borchard (eds.), Die Solidarische Bürgergeld. Analysis of a Reformed Idea, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius 2007, 13-141. As well as other articles in trade journals and public magazines and numerous interviews and participations in TV talk shows (among other things ZDF-Nachtstudio).

With this publicly acclaimed project the ISÖ examined the proposal of Thuringian CDU Prime Minister Dieter Althaus for a “Solidarisches Bürgergeld”.