Consumer policy is a very small policy area and plays a rather subordinate role in Germany, both in terms of influence, degree of institutionalisation, number of posts and budget volume. At the same time, consumer policy repeatedly takes on tasks that basically fulfil socio-political functions, especially in times of crisis such as today. In this way, consumer policy appears to catch up with the largest policy field, social policy. The conference proceedings examine the extent to which consumer policy fulfils such socio-political functions, what this could mean for the strategic position of consumer policy and whether there are any other comparable mergers between consumer policy and other policy fields in Germany. With contributions by Christian Bala | Rolf Heinze | Frank Janning | Miriam Jaquemoth | Jörn Lamla | Olaf Langner | Kathrin Loer | Sebastian Nessel | Frank Nullmeier | Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky | Ulf Schrader | Jürgen Schupp | Christoph Strünck | Gert Wagner

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