The politics of welfare state reform in continental Europe modernization in hard times
"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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cambridge studies in comparative politics. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38428349*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.
