Format:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107041059
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9781107728592
Content:
This book examines an area of Europeanization that has been largely ignored by political analysts: the development of an internal market for workplace pensions. Employing statistical analysis, formal modelling, and in-depth case study research, the author highlights the role of informal signalling and communication processes in designing a common pension market
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 The European dimension of the pension challenge -- 1.1 Summary of the main argument -- 2 National pension regimes, supranational harmonization efforts -- 2.1 Pressures on public pension systems -- 2.2 Multiple identities of workplace pensions -- 2.3 Politics of pension market integration -- 3 The sources of pension reforms in Western Europe -- 3.1 When and why do countries reform their pension systems? -- 3.2 The Maastricht Treaty shock: pressure from "above" -- 3.3 Empirical analysis -- 3.4 Results -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Informal signaling and EU-level bargaining -- 4.1 Decision-making in the European Union: bargaining and procedural approaches -- 4.2 The costs of adjusting to an EU-wide pension market -- 4.3 Formal model -- 4.4 Pressure from "below": domestic preferences over EU pension regulations -- 4.5 What makes "domestic constraints" assertions credible? -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 4.7 Equilibrium characterization -- How do changes in the valuation of agreement affect the probability of bargaining breakdown? -- 5 Single pension market -- 5.1 Inefficient agenda setting in the early 1990s -- 5.2 Efficient agenda setting in the early 2000s -- 5.3 Taxation, investment rules, and biometric risk coverage -- 5.4 Country variations -- 5.5 Alternative explanations -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6 The German position on EU pension policies -- 6.1 The German workplace pension system -- 6.2 Germany and EU negotiation failure in the early 1990s -- 6.3 Domestic discourse - the Kohl era -- 6.4 Germany and EU negotiation success in the early 2000s -- 6.5 Domestic discourse - the Schroder era -- 6.6 Domestic discourse - the Merkel era -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 7 The British position on EU pension policies -- 7.1 The British workplace pension system
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7.2 Domestic discourse - the Thatcher era -- 7.3 Britain and EU negotiation failure in the early 1990s -- 7.4 Britain and EU negotiation success in the early 2000s -- 7.5 Domestic discourse - the Blair era -- 7.6 Conclusion -- 8 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Hennessy, Alexandra The Europeanization of Workplace Pensions New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107041059
Language:
English
Keywords:
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