The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform

By John Myles, P. Pierson. 2001

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Subfields: Finance, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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Taking ‘Galton's Problem’ Seriously (2006, background): “For example, a decline in economic growth, combined with socio-economic developments such as population ageing, has put pension reform (and welfare state reform in general) high on the agenda of most governments (Myles and Pierson, 2001; Pierson, 2001b).”
The Privatization and Marketization of Pensions in Europe: A Double Transformation Facing the Crisis (2015, unknown): “ In line with the “new politics” thesis politicians used strategies of “obfuscating” retrenchment efforts, phasing in reforms gradually or diffusing blame through political consensus building (Myles and Pierson 2001).”
The Logic of Funding European Pension Restructuring and the Dangers of Financialisation (2003, background): “…PAYGo systems into capitalised systems forces current contributors to pay twice, once for their predecessors under the PAYGo systems and once for themselves under the newly established funded system (Brooks, 2002; Miles, 1999, pages 30 ^ 33; Myles and Pierson, 2001; Pierson, 2000, page 811).”
Elephants on the move. Patterns of public pension reform in OECD countries (2000, background): “This section is very much inspired by the work of, and discussions with, John Myles (see Myles 1998; Myles and Quadagno 1997; Myles and Pierson 2000; see also various chapters in Overbye 1998).”
Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975–2001 (2005, background): “Advocates of a new politics approach contend that the welfare state represents the status quo in affluent democracies (Myles and Pierson 2001).”
‘Defrosting’ the French welfare state (2000, background): “They operate differently and each perpetuates (and sometimes even reinforces) the historical logic in which the pension system has developed.(5) Thus, to date, welfare state analyses have concluded that the last 25 years have shown either little retrenchment and great stability or path-dependent cha”
Explaining convergence of OECD welfare states: a conditional approach (2011, background): “1), Hinrichs and Lynch’s typology of pension regimes (2010; see also Myles and Pierson, 2001), Sjöberg et al.’s classification of unemployment compensation schemes (2010), Korpi’s family policy (2000) and Schmid et al.’s healthcare financing regimes (2010).”
A long goodbye to Bismarck? The politics of welfare reform in Continental Europe (2008, unknown): “On the one hand, such interventions were very risky in political terms as the Bismarckian imprint of income maintenance schemes induced the perception of social benefits as ‘quasi-property rights’ (Myles and Pierson 2001) and legitimized union actions in defense of the status quo .”