The Politics of Pension Reform by Giuliano Bonoli
European pension systems are increasingly under pressure. In this book Giuliano Bonoli examines policymakers' efforts to cope in a context where they are caught between public support for existing pension schemes and the expected inability to sustain current arrangements in the long run. The book explores the impact of formal institutions and decision-making procedures on welfare retrenchment and modernisation. It compares and assesses the process of pension policy-making in the UK, France and Switzerland, examining the factors that influence pension reform, and the relative impact upon the decision-making process of political parties and interest groups. The book provides a detailed description of new pension legislation and looks at the issues of demographic change, pension financing, and likely developments on the wider European level. This analysis of pension reform will be of interest to policymakers as well as students of the politics of the welfare state.
"[Bonoli's] findings are complling grist for contemplating the new politics of pension reform and make this book a worthy read" Robert Henry Cox, Political Science Quarterely
Giuliano Bonoli previously worked at the Universities of Fribourg and Bern in Switzerland, and at the University of Bath in Britain. He received his PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury for a study on pension reform in Europe. He has been involved in several national and international
research projects on various aspects of social policy. His work has focused on pension reform, labour market and family polices, with particular attention paid to the politics of welfare state transformation. He has published some forty articles and chapters in edited books, as well as a few books.
He is Professor of Social Policy at the Swiss Graduate School for Public Administration (IDHEAP) at the University of Lausanne.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521776066 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521776066 |
| Title | The Politics of Pension Reform |
| Author | Giuliano Bonoli |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2000-09-14 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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