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Politics within paths
— trajectories of Danish and Swedish earnings-related pensions | | Author(s) | Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Anders Lindbom |
| Journal title | Journal of European Social Policy, vol 16, no 3, August 2006 |
| Pages | pp 245-270 |
| Source | http://esp.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Private pensions ; Social policy ; Retirement policy ; Practical politics ; Sweden ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | The path dependency idea is taken as the starting point for this investigation of earnings-related pension schemes over the last two decades in Denmark and Sweden. In the case of Denmark, this article shows that existing funded, occupational pension schemes precluded a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solutions for workers not already covered due to a "reverse double payment problem". Instead, political attention centred on broadening the coverage of occupational schemes. The article demonstrates that the development of funded pension systems also shows a great deal of path dependency. In the case of Sweden, the authors provide a detailed empirical investigation which shows how the double payment problem affects the position of political parties, rather than the entire reform process. The study thus argues that the political parties were the crucial actors in Swedish pension reform, and that path dependency facilitated a consensual reform process, because it made irrelevant a more fundamental party political disagreement over the pension system. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060922209 A |
| Classmark | JK: TM2: G5: VL: 76P: 76K |
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