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The Handbook of West European Pension Politics Ellen, M. Immergut (Professor of Comparative Politics, Humboldt University, Berlin)

The Handbook of West European Pension Politics By Ellen, M. Immergut (Professor of Comparative Politics, Humboldt University, Berlin)

The Handbook of West European Pension Politics by Ellen, M. Immergut (Professor of Comparative Politics, Humboldt University, Berlin)

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The Handbook of West European Pension Politics provides scholars, policy-makers and students with the definitive overview of the political and policy issues involved in pension policy, and well as case studies of contemporary pension politics in 16 countries.

The Handbook of West European Pension Politics Summary

The Handbook of West European Pension Politics by Ellen, M. Immergut (Professor of Comparative Politics, Humboldt University, Berlin)

The Handbook of West European Pension Politics provides scholars, policy-makers and students with a complete overview of the political and policy issues involved in pension policy, and well as case studies of contemporary pension politics (1980 to present) in 16 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. The handbook is suitable as a text for courses in comparative politics, European Studies, social policy, comparative public policy and public administration. Each chapter is written by an expert on pension politics and is presented in a standardized format with standardized tables and figures that describe: political institutions; government coalitions, parliamentary and electoral majorities; the party system; the pension system; proposed and enacted pension reforms.

The Handbook of West European Pension Politics Reviews

Review from previous edition '...represents a unique source of comparable data and a promising step beyond the traditional contributions on the stickiness of pension programmes.' * Political Studies Review *
'Provides comprehensive analysis of the politics of pension reform in western Europe' * International Social Security Review *

About Ellen, M. Immergut (Professor of Comparative Politics, Humboldt University, Berlin)

Ellen M. Immergut is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. She did her graduate work at Harvard University, was appointed as Assistant and Ford Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor at the Instituto Juan March in Madrid, and Professor of Political Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is author of the book Health Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1992), co-editor of a special issue of Governance on crises of governance in coordinated market economies, as well as various articles on the new institutionalism, institutional design and the politics of constitutional reform. Karen M. Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Nijmegen University. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of the welfare state, particularly the role of unions and social democratic parties in welfare state restructuring processes. Her work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Zeitschrift fur Sozialreform, Canadian Journal of Sociology, and the Journal of Public Policy. She is currently completing a book about the restructuring of the Swedish welfare state during the 1990s. Isabelle Schulze is a researcher at the Mannheimer Zentrum fur Europaische Sozialforschung (MZES) at the University of Mannheim for the project Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe: The Varying Scope for Participatory and Social Rights. She is writing a dissertation at Humboldt University Berlin on the role of electoral threat in pension politics, and received her MA at the University of Konstanz on agricultural politics in Britain and Germany. She was awarded a dissertation fellowship from the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung of the Federation of German Pension Insurance Institutes (Verband Deutscher Rentenversicherungstrager; now Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund).

Table of Contents

PART I. SINGLE VETO PLAYER GOVERNMENTS; NO VETO POINTS; PART II. MULTIPLE VETO POINTS; PART III. MANY PARTISAN VETO PLAYERS; PART IV. MODERATE VETO POINTS AND VETO PLAYERS; PART V. CLOSED VETO POINTS, MODERATE VETO PLAYERS, UNUSUAL ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

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NLS9780199562473
9780199562473
0199562474
The Handbook of West European Pension Politics by Ellen, M. Immergut (Professor of Comparative Politics, Humboldt University, Berlin)
Ellen, M. Immergut (Professor of Comparative Politics, Humboldt University, Berlin)
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Oxford University Press
2009-03-19
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