The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 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 for adjustment
2 An Empirical Overview of Policy Change in Bismarckian Pension Regimes
3 The Politics of Pension Reform:An Actor-Centred Explanatory Framework
3.1 Social policymaking in an era of retrenchment:A review of theoretical approaches
3.2 The concept of actor-centred institutionalism
3.3 The politics of pension reform
3.4 Summary of the theoretical framework
4 Sweden:Policy-Oriented Bargaining
5 Italy:Corporatist Concertation in the Shadow of EMU
6 Germany:From Consensus To Conflict
7 Austria:Reform Blockage by the Trade Unions
8 France:Adverse Prerequisites for a Pension Consensus
9 Conclusion
Appendix I Summary Description of Retirement Systems (1986)
Appendix II Chronology of National Pension Reforms
Appendix III Glossary of Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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