The Politics of Pension Reform
Subtitle: Institutions and Policy Change in Western Europe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 18, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780521776066
Subjects: Pensions; Political economy; Social security; Personal Finance - Retirement Planning; Government - Comparative; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - Social Security; Politics/International Relations; Old age pensions--Government policy--Europe, Western--Case studies; Political Science / Public Policy; General; Case studies; Europe, Western; Government policy; Old age pensions
First sentence: The long-term sustainability of current pension arrangements is one of the major issues with which advanced industrial societies will have to deal over the next few decades..
Description: This text examines reactions to the divergence between public support for existing pension schemes and the likely inability to sustain current arrangements. The author compares pension policy-making in the UK, France and Switzerland.