Socialist responsibilization: the government of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in the German Democratic Republic in the 1970s

Paying attention to each other. An essay on the transnational intersections of industrial economy, subjectivity, and governance in East Germany's social‐psychological training

“…Existing analyses suggest an eclecticism of styles, including repression, surveillance, education, welfare, and limited liberalization, with their respective blend varying in different phases of the GDR. Recent studies have even attributed neoliberal strategies to the party leadership in the late‐socialist period, particularly in the healthcare field where authorities progressively assigned more personal responsibility to individuals (Balz, 2020; Offermann, 2019). 35 To be sure, the organization of economic and social life remained firmly in the hands of the state until the very end of state‐socialism, and GDR's industries also did not outgrow a Fordist mode.…”