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Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection

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was an undisputed success, at least in terms of stability and prosperity. Social Democrats and Conservatism, while still intensely mistrustful of each other's motives and jealous of each other's influence, ruled the country through a series of constructive and mutually beneficial
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was declining; parliamentarism was becoming more vigorous and assertive. It was clear that future cabinets were going to have to take charge of employment policy and workers' welfare more directly and with more parliamentary accountability.
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was also in charge of family affairs; the Ministry of Social Affairs took back consumer protection from the Chancellery. A few years later, in 2009, responsibilities were shuffled again: the
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Austria did not have a Ministry of Labor, or any other cabinet-level government agency with Labor in its name, for much of its existence. In the decade leading up to the
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years were over. Austria's nationalized heavy industries were in trouble. Some of the country's largest employers were in danger; the credibility of the
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removed labor affairs from the Ministry of Economy, creating an independent Ministry of Labor once again; Labor then absorbed Social Affairs.
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and transferred its responsibilities in matters of health care to what was now called the Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Affairs (
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The Minister and his staff are political appointees; the director general and the section heads are career civil servants.
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republic when Nazi Germany had collapsed and Austria, devastated and occupied by the victors, needed to be rebuilt.
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was suffering. At the same time, Austria's party landscape was changing: the combined vote share of
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In 2018, the Ministry also absorbed the Ministry of Health. On 29 January 2020, it was renamed
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Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
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As of May 2018, the ministry consists of the Minister and his personal staff (
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The Ministry was first established in 1917 as the Ministry of Social Welfare (
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had eroded civil society, undermined democratic institutions, and sparked a
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The Ministry was first created in 1917 as the Ministry of Social Welfare (
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Pflegevorsorge, Behinderten-, Versorgungs- und Sozialhilfeangelegenheiten
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Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology
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Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection
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Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Gesundheit und Konsumentenschutz
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are prestige broadsheets from opposite sides of the political spectrum.
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Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, and Consumer Protection
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Europäische, internationale und sozialpolitische Grundsatzfragen
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Nursing care insurance, disabilities matters, benefits policy (
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For the first few decades of postwar Austria, its new ethos of
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split the Ministry into three: Labor was attached to the
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Minister for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport
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Patients' rights and health care consumer protection (
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did establish a Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (
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Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales
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Ministry of Social Affairs (Austria)


Austria
Vienna
48°12′35″N 16°22′59″E / 48.20972°N 16.38306°E / 48.20972; 16.38306
Johannes Rauch
Minister of Social Affairs
sozialministerium.at
Austrian politics
ministry
World War I
Anschluss
World War II
Social Democrats
Christian Conservatives
civil war
Federal State of Austria
Fascist
single-party state
consociationalist
consensus decision making
grand coalition
near-full employment
Franz Vranitzky
Wirtschaftswunder
Social Democrats
People's Party
Klima cabinet
Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection

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