Edited by Ellen, M. Immergut, Karen, M. Anderson and Isabelle Schulze
The Handbook of West European Pension Politics provides scholars, policy-makers and students with a complete overview of the political and policy issues involved in pension policy, and well as case studies of contemporary pension politics (1980 to present) in 16 countries: Austria, Belgium,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. The book is suitable as a text for courses in comparative politics, European Studies, social policy, comparative public policy and public administration. Each
chapter is written by an expert on pension politics and is presented in a standardized format with standardized tables and figures that describe: political institutions; government coalitions, parliamentary and electoral majorities; the party system; the pension system; proposed and enacted pension
reforms.
1. Ellen M. Immergut & Karen M. Anderson: Editors Introduction: the Dynamics of Pension Politics
Part I. Single Veto Player Governments; No Veto Points
2. Isabelle Schulze & Michael Moran: United Kingdom: pension politics in an adversarial system
3. Polyxeni Triantafillou:
Greece: political competition in a majoritarian system
4. Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt: 4. France: the importance of the electoral cycle
Part II. Multiple Veto Points
5. Giuliano Bonoli: Switzerland: the impact of direct democracy on a multipillar system
6. Olli Kangas: Finland:
labor markets against politics
7. Karen M. Anderson, Sannekke Kuipers, Isabelle Schulze & Wendy van den Nouland: Belgium: linguistic veto players and pension reform
Part III. Many Partisan Veto Players
8. Karen M. Anderson & Ellen M. Immergut: Sweden: after social democratic
hegemony
9. Maurizio Ferrera & Matteo Jessoula: Italy: a narrow gate for path-shift
10. Christoffer Green-Pedersen: Denmark: a 'World Bank' pension system
Part IV. Moderate Veto Points and Veto Players
11. Elisa Chuliá: Spain: between majority rule and incrementalism
12.
Isabelle Schulze and Martin Schludi: Austria: From electoral cartels to competitive coalition-building
13. Elisa Chuliá & María Asensio: Portugal: in search of a stable framework
14. Isabelle Schulze & Sven Jochem: Germany: beyond policy gridlock
Part V. Closed Veto Points, Moderate
Veto Players, Unusual Electoral Systems
15. Karen M. Anderson: The Netherlands: political competition in proportional system
16. Isabelle Schulze & Michael Moran: Ireland: pensioning the Celtic tiger
17. Isabelle Schulze: Luxembourg: an electoral system with panache
18. Appendix:
pension systems in western europe
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Ellen M. Immergut is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. She did her graduate work at Harvard University, was appointed as Assistant and Ford Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor at the Instituto Juan March in Madrid, and Professor of Political Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is author of the book Health Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1992), co-editor of a special issue of Governance on crises of
governance in coordinated market economies, as well as various articles on the new institutionalism, institutional design and the politics of constitutional reform.
Karen M. Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Nijmegen University. She received her PhD in
political science from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of the welfare state, particularly the role of unions and social democratic parties in welfare state restructuring processes. Her work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies,
Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, Canadian Journal of Sociology, and the Journal of Public Policy. She is currently completing a book about the restructuring of the Swedish welfare state during the 1990s.
Isabelle Schulze is a researcher at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung
(MZES) at the University of Mannheim for the project <"Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe: The Varying Scope for Participatory and Social Rights>". She is writing a dissertation at Humboldt University Berlin on the role of electoral threat in pension politics, and received her MA at the
University of Konstanz on agricultural politics in Britain and Germany. She was awarded a dissertation fellowship from the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung of the Federation of German Pension Insurance Institutes (Verband Deutscher Rentenversicherungsträger; now Deutsche Rentenversicherung
Bund).
