Beschreibung:
Comparative study of European countries' efforts to reform pension systems in the context of ageing populations.
Introduction; 1. Dimensions of the pension problem: institutions, economics and politics; 2. Understanding the politics of pension reform: a theoretical framework; 3. Britain: pension reform through majority rule; 4. Switzerland: the politics of consensual retrenchment; 5. France: the search for an elusive consensus; 6. Institutions, power concentration and pension reform.