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Beyond privatization — pension reform in the Czech Republic and Slovenia
Author(s)	Katharina Müller
Journal title	Journal of European Social Policy, vol 12, no 4, November 2002
Pages	pp 293-306
Keywords	Pensions ; Private enterprise ; Labour economics ; Social policy ; Czechoslovakia ; Yugoslavia.
Annotation	Research on the political economy of pension reform has focused on the recent wave of pension privatisations in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This paper is motivated by the need to shed more light on cases where radical reform was rejected, as in the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Pension privatisation did not proceed when the World Bank and the Ministry of Finance - important advocates of radical reform - were absent from the pension reform arena, and the Ministry of Social Affairs was the only relevant reform actor. Moreover, unions need not be secondary actors, but may effectively veto pension privatisation. The paper highlights the importance of the specific political and economic conditions that may constrain the leeway of pension reform actors, while also discussing the global politics of attention. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-021216520 A
Classmark	JJ: W4D: WH: TM2: 7AC: 7AL
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