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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2005
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
311
Publishing info:
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
Table of Contents:
List of Tables/List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Need for Pension Reform: A Problem-Oriented Perspective
1.1 Public pension arrangements under adaptational pressures
1.2 Specific vulnerabilities of Bismarckian pension systems
1.3 Options for reform
1.4 Varying degrees in the need for adjustment
2 An Empirical Overview of Policy Change in Bismarckian Pension
Regimes
3 The Politics of Pension Reform: An Actor-Centred Explanatory
Framework
3.1 Social policymaking in an era of retrenchment: A review of
theoretical approaches
3.2 The concept of actor-centred institutionalism
3.3 The politics of pension reform
3.4 Summary of the theoretical framework
4 Sweden: Policy-Oriented Bargaining
5 Italy: CorporatistConcertation in the Shadow of EMU
6 Germany: From Consensus To Conflict
7 Austria: Reform Blockage by the Trade Unions
8 France:Adverse Prerequisites for a Pension Consensus
9 Conclusion
Appendix I Summary Description of Retirement Systems (1986)
Appendix If Chronology of National Pension Reforms
Appendix ill Glossary of Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Rev. Type:
-
Identifiers:
eDoc: 270941
ISBN: 90-5356-740-2
Degree:
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