Political Preferences and the Aging of Populations Political-Economy Explanations of Pension Reform /

• Main Author: Pamp, Oliver (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2015.
• Subjects: Political science.; Political economy.; Demography.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Economy.

Oliver Pamp analyzes the likelihood and extent of pension reforms from a political-economy perspective. It is shown that voters’ preferences for or against reforms are influenced by a societies’ demographic development, the generosity of its existing public pension scheme and its electoral system. T...

Table of Contents:

• Population Aging and its Economic and Financial Consequences
• Formal Models of Pension Systems
• Pension Preferences and Reform – A Political-Economy Model
• Econometric Analyses of Cross-National Survey Data on Individual Pension Reform Preferences.