Silja Häusermann

The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates that political exchange and coalition building have become the key ingredients for continental European pension reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192729
• ISBN-10: 0521192722
• Artikelnr.: 29338170

Autorenporträt

Silja Häusermann is Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. She has been a visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She was awarded the Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Prize of the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association, the Jean Blondel Ph.D. Prize of the European Consortium for Political Research, the Junior Scientist Award by the Swiss Political Science Association, and the Young Researcher Prize by the Journal of European Social Policy and the European Social Policy Analysis Network. She has published articles on comparative welfare state analysis, public opinion and welfare states, and the Europeanization of national politics, in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, the Socio-Economic Review, European Societies, the Journal of European Social Policy, and the Journal of European Public Policy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: 'eppur si muove' - welfare state change despite
institutional inertia; 2. Modernization in hard times: the post-industrial
politics of continental welfare state reform; Part I. Pension Reform in
Continental Europe: A Framework of Analysis: 3. A new reform agenda: old
age security in the post-industrial era; 4. Changing alliances: conflict
lines and actor configurations; 5. Reform outputs: strategies of
coalitional engineering; Part II. Determinants of Successful Pension Reform
in Continental Europe: 6. France - trade union fragmentation as reform
opportunity; 7. Germany - institutional obstacles to multidimensional
reform politics; 8. Switzerland - recalibration as an enabling mechanism of
pension compromises; 9. Conclusion: reform outputs and political
implications.