This report uses ten survey waves by the WSI Labour Force Panel to analyse the willingness to vote for the AfD. In addition to voter migration, AfD voters are profiled in terms of demographic and labour-related characteristics as well as their concerns, confidence and perspective on the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The report also analyses how new AfD voters differ from established regular voters. AfD voters are uniformly characterised as highly stressed, distrustful and highly concerned. Limiting immigration appears to be the unifying theme that also appeals to new groups of AfD voters who share other AfD positions less strongly and have not yet built up too much trust in the AfD.

The everyday experiences and opportunities of people in Germany depend crucially on their income. Income inequality becomes a social problem at the latest when it contributes to the alienation of individual groups from the democratic system. Based on the persistently high level of income inequality, the report traces the different realities of people's lives and makes it clear that if people no longer feel valued by society and lose trust in the political system, then democracy also suffers as a result.

What does the introduction of market mechanisms in welfare provision mean? Evidence gathered from the agendas of the committee for labour and social affairs and the committee for health of the Federal Parliament 1990–2017 shows that consumers’ interests are represented by consumer organizations, but to varying degrees. Differences follow the variances in the development and regulation of the specific welfare markets.

In recent decades, Germany has been experiencing major social policy reforms that are often evaluated as paradigm changes. Florian Blank (WSI) focuses on four aspects of social insurance: benefits, financing, governance, and coverage.

The new handbook offers comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, on EU social policy, and comparative analyses. Florian Blank (WSI) ontributed a detailed description and analysis of developments in German social policies in the last twenty years.

The "Inequality in Europe" series on Social Europe examines the different dimensions of inequality in Europe and what kind of policy mix could help addressing them. Anita Tiefensee (WSI) gives an overview on the current distribution of wealth.