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Pension Politics - Consensus and Social Conflict in Ageing Societies (Hardcover)
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Pension Politics - Consensus and Social Conflict in Ageing Societies (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
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Population ageing and slower economic growth have raised serious
questions about the willingness and ability of governments to
maintain current social policies. Within this new reality,
discussions on the future of public pensions have been predominant
in political debates across Europe. This book explains why certain
countries have been able to radically transform their pension
system while others have simply altered parameters. To answer this
question an extensive comparative analysis, including more than 60
interviews, was conducted in Belgium, France, Sweden and the UK.
This empirical data provides an interesting contrast between
reforms. Parametric reforms have stemmed from the creation of
pension administrations outside the traditional state apparatus in
France and Belgium and the resulting inclusion of social partners;
while the state administrations of Sweden and the UK where debates
have been internalised have led to programmatic reforms. Two
controversial findings of this book include an explanation for the
lack of influence on the part of the labour movement in the 1994/98
Swedish reform and a rejection of arguments claiming that policy
change will be minimal with coalition governments. Finally the
conclusion seeks to extend the applicability of the model to other
industrialized countries. This book will be of interest to students
and scholars of public policy, specifically social policy,
political economy, the welfare state and comparative politics.
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