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  The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems: A Comparison of Pension Politics in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden

Schludi, M. (2005). The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems: A Comparison of Pension Politics in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

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Schludi, Martin1, 2, Author           
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1Problemlösungsfähigkeit der Mehrebenenpolitik in Europa, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society, ou_1214552              
2Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg, Germany, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: Pension reform has emerged as a major political issue in most advanced welfare states. Sluggish economic growth and rising unemployment put public pension systems under increasing financial pressure. In combination with a rapidly ageing population in the decades to come, these pressures render major adjustements in pension policy design inevitable, especially in countries with costly earnings-related benefit arrangements. However, timely and successful adjustement is anything but guaranteed. Both cuts of pension benefits and increases in contribution levels are bound to be highly unpopular and entail massive political risks. Thus, pension politics these days is as much about adjusting pension arrangements to changing demographic and economic conditions as it is about overcoming widespread political resistance to reforms that impose tangible losses on large parts of the population. This study reveals striking differences in the extent to which pension policy makers were able to generate a sufficient political support basis for their reform initiatives. As a consequence, pension reform outcomes reach from successful restructuring of existing pension arrangements all the way down to instances of outright policy failure. By tracing the political process of pension reform in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden since the late 1980s the book also provides us with deeper insights about the factors that facilitate – or impede – social policy reforms in the context of fiscal austerity.

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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
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Index
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 Identifiers: eDoc: 270941
ISBN: 90-5356-740-2
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Title: Changing Welfare States
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