Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 276 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-0-511-75058-8
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Content:
This book challenges existing theories of welfare state change by analyzing pension reforms in France, Germany, and Switzerland between 1970 and 2004. It explains why all three countries were able to adopt far-reaching reforms, adapting their pension regimes to both financial austerity and new social risks. In a radical departure from the neo-institutionalist emphasis on policy stability, the book argues that socio-structural change has led to a multidimensional pension reform agenda. A variety of cross-cutting lines of political conflict, emerging from the transition to a post-industrial economy, allowed governments to engage in strategies of political exchange and coalition-building, fostering broad cross-class coalitions in support of major reform packages. Methodologically, the book proposes a novel strategy to analyze lines of conflict, configurations of political actors, and coalitional dynamics over time. This strategy combines quantitative analyses of actor configurations based on coded policy positions with in-depth case studies
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Teilw. zugl.: Zürich, Univ., Diss., 2007
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"Eppur si muove" : welfare state change despite institutional inertia -- Modernization in hard times : the post-industrial politics of continental welfare state reform -- A new reform agenda : old age security in the post-industrial era -- Changing alliances : conflict lines and actor configurations -- Reform outputs : strategies of coalitional engineering -- France : trade union fragmentation as an opportunity for reform -- Germany : institutional obstacles to multidimensional reform politics -- Switzerland : recalibration as an enabling mechanism of pension compromises -- Conclusion : reform outputs and political implications
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-19272-9
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-521-18368-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Political Science
Keywords:
Rentenreform
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Sozialpolitik
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Wohlfahrtsstaat
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Rentenpolitik
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Rentenreform
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511750588
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