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Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State) - Hardcover

Book 15 of 22: Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State

Guardiancich, Igor

 
9780415688987: Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415688981 ISBN 13: 9780415688987
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book traces and analyzes the legislation and implementation of pension reforms in four Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. By comparing the political economy of their policymaking processes, it seeks to pinpoint regularities between institutional settings, actor constellations, decision-making strategies and reform.

Guardiancich employs a historical institutionalist framework to analyze the policies, actors and institutions that characterized the period between the collapse of socialism and the global financial crisis of 2008-2011. He argues that viable pension reforms should not be seen simply as an event, but rather as a continuing process that must be fiscally, socially and politically sustainable. In particular, the primary goal of a pension scheme is to reduce poverty, provide adequate retirement income and insure against the risks of old age within given fiscal constraints, and this will happen only if the scheme enjoys continuing political support at all levels. To this end the author individuates those institutional characteristics of countries that increase the consistency of reforms and lower the likelihood of policy reversals in time.

Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, political economy, social policy and economics.

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About the Author

Igor Guardiancich earned his PhD at the European University Institute in 2009. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415688981
ISBN 13 
9780415688987
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304