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The politics of welfare state reform in continental Europe : = modernization in hard times /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The politics of welfare state reform in continental Europe :/ Silja Häusermann.
Reminder of title:	modernization in hard times /
Author:	Häusermann, Silja,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 276 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Pensions - Government policy - France. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511750588
ISBN:	9780511750588 (ebook)

The politics of welfare state reform in continental Europe : = modernization in hard times /
Häusermann, Silja,

The politics of welfare state reform in continental Europe :modernization in hard times /Silja Häusermann. - 1 online resource (xvii, 276 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in comparative politics. - Cambridge studies in comparative politics..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

"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.

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 social risks. In a radical departure from the neo-institutionalist emphasis on policy stability, the book argues that socio-structural change has led to a multidimensional pension reform agenda. A variety of cross-cutting lines of political conflict, emerging from the transition to a post-industrial economy, allowed governments to engage in strategies of political exchange and coalition-building, fostering broad cross-class coalitions in support of major reform packages. Methodologically, the book proposes a novel strategy to analyze lines of conflict, configurations of political actors, and coalitional dynamics over time. This strategy combines quantitative analyses of actor configurations based on coded policy positions with in-depth case studies.

ISBN: 9780511750588 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

801499
Pensions
--Government policy--France.

LC Class. No.: HD7175 / .H38 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 331.25/22094

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