The Need for Pension Reform:A Problem-Oriented Perspective -- Public pension arrangements under adaptational pressures -- Specific vulnerabilities of Bismarckian pension systems -- Options for reform -- Varying degrees in the need for adjustment -- An Empirical Overview of Policy Change in Bismarckian Pension Regimes -- The Politics of Pension Reform:An Actor-Centred Explanatory Framework -- Social policymaking in an era of retrenchment:A review of theoretical approaches -- The concept of actor-centred institutionalism -- The politics of pension reform -- Summary of the theoretical framework -- Sweden:Policy-Oriented Bargaining -- Italy:Corporatist Concertation in the Shadow of EMU -- Germany:From Consensus To Conflict -- Austria:Reform Blockage by the Trade Unions -- France:Adverse Prerequisites for a Pension Consensus -- Conclusion
Summary
Offers an analysis of the political process involved in the reform of the pension systems in European countries
Analysis
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Notes
Title from e-book title screen (viewed July 6, 2005)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index
