Self-responsibility in Germany and France : a comparative discourse analysis

Self-responsibility has been discussed in a wide variety of research, ranging from education to health care and social studies. In this thesis the comparison has been made between the position of self-responsibility in German and French politics, and in particular the way that political parties address the topic in their manifestos. For this research the model of Ossewaarde (2006) has been used, classifying self-responsibility in the categories of power, accountability, task, and virtue.