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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2003-02-212003
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
301
Publishing info:
Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III
Table of Contents:
List of tables
List of figures
Introduction
Chapter I: 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 of adjustment
Chapter 2: An empirical overview of policy change in Bismarckian pension regimes
Chapter 3: The politics of pension reform – an actor-centered explanatory framework
3.1 Social policy-making in an era of retrenchment – a review of theoretical approaches
3.2 The concept of actor-centered institutionalism
3.3 The politics of pension reform
Chapter 4: Sweden - Policy-oriented bargaining
Chapter 5: Italy - Corporatist concertation in the shadow of EMU
Chapter 6: Germany - From consensus towards conflict
Chapter 7: Austria - Reform blockage by the trade unions
Chapter 8: France - Adverse prerequisites for a pension consensus
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Appendix I: Summary description of retirement systems (1986)
Appendix II: Chronology of national pension reforms
Appendix III: Glossary of terms
Bibliography
Rev. Type:
-
Identifiers:
eDoc: 17825
Degree:
PhD
