The political economy of pension reform in Central-Eastern Europe

Titel: The political economy of pension reform in Central-Eastern Europe / Katharina Müller
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Veröffentlicht: Cheltenham, UK ˜[u.a.]œ : Elgar, 1999
Umfang: XIII, 222 S. : graph. Darst. ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Hochschulschrift: Zugl.:Frankfurt (Oder), Univ., Diss., 1999
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ISBN: 1840642386
  • Figures
  • p. vii
  • Tables
  • p. viii
  • Abbreviations
  • p. x
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xiii
  • 1.
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1.1
  • Transformation and Social Security in Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 1
  • 1.2
  • The Focus of this Study
  • p. 3
  • 1.3
  • A Road-Map
  • p. 6
  • 2.
  • Reforming Old-Age Security: Design Choices and Policy Blueprints
  • p. 9
  • 2.1
  • Basic Policy Choices for Old-Age Pension Schemes
  • p. 9
  • 2.2
  • West European Models: Bismarck, Beveridge and Beyond
  • p. 13
  • 2.3
  • Latin American Precedents for Pension Privatisation
  • p. 18
  • 2.4
  • The New Pension Orthodoxy and its Critics
  • p. 24
  • 3.
  • Approaching the Political Economy of Pension Reform
  • p. 37
  • 3.1
  • On the Political Feasibility of Radical Pension Reforms
  • p. 37
  • 3.2
  • Existing Approaches to the Politics of Pension Reform
  • p. 39
  • 3.3
  • Insights from the Political Economy of Policy Reform
  • p. 44
  • 3.4
  • The Conceptual Framework of this Study
  • p. 48
  • 4.
  • Pension Reform in Hungary
  • p. 60
  • 4.1
  • The Legacy: Retirement Schemes Before 1989
  • p. 60
  • 4.2
  • Old-Age Security in Transformation: Initial Measures
  • p. 63
  • 4.3
  • The Way Towards Systemic Pension Reform
  • p. 71
  • 4.4
  • The New Hungarian Pension System
  • p. 83
  • 4.5
  • Summing Up: Problems, Actors and Policy Choices
  • p. 87
  • 5.
  • Pension Reform in Poland
  • p. 93
  • 5.1
  • The Legacy: Retirement Schemes Before 1989
  • p. 93
  • 5.2
  • Old-Age Security in Transformation: Initial Measures
  • p. 96
  • 5.3
  • The Way Towards Systemic Pension Reform
  • p. 102
  • 5.4
  • The New Polish Pension System
  • p. 116
  • 5.5
  • Summing Up: Problems, Actors and Policy Choices
  • p. 122
  • 6.
  • Pension Reform in the Czech Republic
  • p. 127
  • 6.1
  • The Legacy: Retirement Schemes Before 1989
  • p. 127
  • 6.2
  • Old-Age Security in Transformation
  • p. 129
  • 6.3
  • Pension Politics in the Klaus Era
  • p. 136
  • 6.4
  • The Recent Pension Reform Debate
  • p. 140
  • 6.5
  • Summing Up: Problems, Actors and Policy Choices
  • p. 144
  • 7.
  • Central--Eastern European Pension Reforms in a Comparative Perspective
  • p. 149
  • 7.1
  • From a Common Legacy to Bifurcating Reform Paths
  • p. 149
  • 7.2
  • Radical Reform in Hungary and Poland: Conceptual and Political Economy Aspects
  • p. 156
  • 7.3
  • Paradigm Choices, Structural Settings and Actor Constellations in Comparison
  • p. 164
  • 8.
  • Conclusions: The Political Economy of Pension Reform in Central--Eastern Europe
  • p. 179
  • References
  • p. 182
  • Index
  • p. 218