Glenn Drover
Biographic Data
| ID | 363098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn Drover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Drover |
| SIGNATURE | DROVER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Assessing the Capacity of Pension Institutions to Build and Sustain Trust: A Multidimensional Conceptual Framework
As policy makers have sought to reconfigure the public-private boundaries of their pension systems, trust has become an increasingly salient issue. At stake is the attainment of desired policy outcomes regarding retirement. By what criteria, then, should the capacity of pension institutions to build and sustain trust be assessed? This article emphasises the strategic importance of institutional design in the trust process. Building on Sztompka's …
Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada
Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada, Isla Carmichael, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. 219.Isla Carmichael has been writing about union pensions for a decade. Over the past ten years, she has examined different aspects of union-based pension funds and labour-sponsored investment, including fiduciary responsibility, the role of union pension trustees, social accounting, collateral benefits and econom…
Western European Pensions Privatisation: A Response to Jay Ginn
Our recent paper on state-mandated private pension schemes in Western Europe has been criticised by Ginn because it did not look specifically at the impact of private provision on women. This was not our intent, but she raises important issues that are largely ignored in economics-driven pension privatisation policy discourses. She has addressed this omission by demonstrating that private pension provision may result in significant levels of econ…
Welfare Retrenchment or Collective Responsibility? The Privatisation of Public Pensions in Western Europe
Public pensions privatisation in Western Europe has been seen as being part of a broader programme of welfare retrenchment, informed by neoliberal values, that will intensify poverty among future generations of pensioners. Whilst such fears should not be dismissed lightly, we argue that the notion of welfare privatisation is conceptually much broader than the free-market model posited by neoliberalism. Reflecting this, many of the public pensions…
Tilting Toward Marketization: Reform of the Canadian Pension Plan
Public concern about the earnings-related Canada Pension Plan has forced the Canadian government to move toward fuller funding, a new investment policy, and changes to benefits and administration. Together, the three initiatives, and particularly the first two, amount to a modest degree of marketization. The assumption behind the reform is that the Canada Pension Plan will remain public and mandatory but the change will create a board and an inve…
The Market in Chinese Social Policy
Nationalism and Trade Liberalization in Quebec and Taiwan
I n this paper, we explore how nationalism in Taiwan and Quebec has been affected by trade liberalization.' In particular, we explore the way in which political, business and intellectual elites have used trade liberalization to shape nationalist agendas. In Taiwan, the economic reform of the mainland has increased the interdependence of the Taiwanese economy with the Chinese mainland and reduced the maneuverability of nationalist forces to furth…
Social Policy in Hong Kong
NGOs, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort
Chinese and western notions of need
In this article, we compare Chinese and western notions of need, by look ing at the theoretical underpinnings of need in western and Chinese moral thought. We do so, first, by outlining a theory of need developed by Doyal and Gough (1984, 1991), second, by examining the notion of autonomy, third, by considering social obligations, and, fourth, by look ing at the social construction of need. We conclude by arguing for a con sideration of a theory …
Social Welfare Policy: Developments and Directions in North America
Free Trade and Social Policy: The Canadian Debate
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
Inner‐city Real Estate Activity in Montreal: A Reply
Inner‐city Real Estate Activity in Montreal: Institutional Characteristics of Decline
Inner‐city housing decline is reviewed in terms of neo‐classical and Marxist theory. The latter is tested in two empirical studies. First, housing transactions in an inner‐city district of Montreal are compared with the city as a whole for 1966‐1974. Second, three contrasting sub‐markets are compared with respect to mortgage arrangements and property tax for the years 1966 and 1974. It is concluded that Marxist theory provides a valuable interpre…
Welfare Retrenchment or Collective Responsibility? The Privatisation of Public Pensions in Western Europe
Public pensions privatisation in Western Europe has been seen as being part of a broader programme of welfare retrenchment, informed by neoliberal values, that will intensify poverty among future generations of pensioners. Whilst such fears should not be dismissed lightly, we argue that the notion of welfare privatisation is conceptually much broader than the free-market model posited by neoliberalism. Reflecting this, many of the public pensions…
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
Inner‐city Real Estate Activity in Montreal: Institutional Characteristics of Decline
Inner‐city housing decline is reviewed in terms of neo‐classical and Marxist theory. The latter is tested in two empirical studies. First, housing transactions in an inner‐city district of Montreal are compared with the city as a whole for 1966‐1974. Second, three contrasting sub‐markets are compared with respect to mortgage arrangements and property tax for the years 1966 and 1974. It is concluded that Marxist theory provides a valuable interpre…
Assessing the Capacity of Pension Institutions to Build and Sustain Trust: A Multidimensional Conceptual Framework
As policy makers have sought to reconfigure the public-private boundaries of their pension systems, trust has become an increasingly salient issue. At stake is the attainment of desired policy outcomes regarding retirement. By what criteria, then, should the capacity of pension institutions to build and sustain trust be assessed? This article emphasises the strategic importance of institutional design in the trust process. Building on Sztompka's …
Chinese and western notions of need
In this article, we compare Chinese and western notions of need, by look ing at the theoretical underpinnings of need in western and Chinese moral thought. We do so, first, by outlining a theory of need developed by Doyal and Gough (1984, 1991), second, by examining the notion of autonomy, third, by considering social obligations, and, fourth, by look ing at the social construction of need. We conclude by arguing for a con sideration of a theory …
Western European Pensions Privatisation: A Response to Jay Ginn
Our recent paper on state-mandated private pension schemes in Western Europe has been criticised by Ginn because it did not look specifically at the impact of private provision on women. This was not our intent, but she raises important issues that are largely ignored in economics-driven pension privatisation policy discourses. She has addressed this omission by demonstrating that private pension provision may result in significant levels of econ…
Tilting Toward Marketization: Reform of the Canadian Pension Plan
Public concern about the earnings-related Canada Pension Plan has forced the Canadian government to move toward fuller funding, a new investment policy, and changes to benefits and administration. Together, the three initiatives, and particularly the first two, amount to a modest degree of marketization. The assumption behind the reform is that the Canada Pension Plan will remain public and mandatory but the change will create a board and an inve…
Social Welfare Policy: Developments and Directions in North America
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
Inner‐city Real Estate Activity in Montreal: Institutional Characteristics of Decline
Inner‐city housing decline is reviewed in terms of neo‐classical and Marxist theory. The latter is tested in two empirical studies. First, housing transactions in an inner‐city district of Montreal are compared with the city as a whole for 1966‐1974. Second, three contrasting sub‐markets are compared with respect to mortgage arrangements and property tax for the years 1966 and 1974. It is concluded that Marxist theory provides a valuable interpre…
Inner‐city Real Estate Activity in Montreal: A Reply
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
Inequality: Essays on the Political Economy of Social Welfare
Free Trade and Social Policy: The Canadian Debate
Social Welfare Policy: Developments and Directions in North America
Chinese and western notions of need
In this article, we compare Chinese and western notions of need, by look ing at the theoretical underpinnings of need in western and Chinese moral thought. We do so, first, by outlining a theory of need developed by Doyal and Gough (1984, 1991), second, by examining the notion of autonomy, third, by considering social obligations, and, fourth, by look ing at the social construction of need. We conclude by arguing for a con sideration of a theory …
NGOs, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort
Social Policy in Hong Kong
Nationalism and Trade Liberalization in Quebec and Taiwan
I n this paper, we explore how nationalism in Taiwan and Quebec has been affected by trade liberalization.' In particular, we explore the way in which political, business and intellectual elites have used trade liberalization to shape nationalist agendas. In Taiwan, the economic reform of the mainland has increased the interdependence of the Taiwanese economy with the Chinese mainland and reduced the maneuverability of nationalist forces to furth…
Tilting Toward Marketization: Reform of the Canadian Pension Plan
Public concern about the earnings-related Canada Pension Plan has forced the Canadian government to move toward fuller funding, a new investment policy, and changes to benefits and administration. Together, the three initiatives, and particularly the first two, amount to a modest degree of marketization. The assumption behind the reform is that the Canada Pension Plan will remain public and mandatory but the change will create a board and an inve…
The Market in Chinese Social Policy
Welfare Retrenchment or Collective Responsibility? The Privatisation of Public Pensions in Western Europe
Public pensions privatisation in Western Europe has been seen as being part of a broader programme of welfare retrenchment, informed by neoliberal values, that will intensify poverty among future generations of pensioners. Whilst such fears should not be dismissed lightly, we argue that the notion of welfare privatisation is conceptually much broader than the free-market model posited by neoliberalism. Reflecting this, many of the public pensions…
Western European Pensions Privatisation: A Response to Jay Ginn
Our recent paper on state-mandated private pension schemes in Western Europe has been criticised by Ginn because it did not look specifically at the impact of private provision on women. This was not our intent, but she raises important issues that are largely ignored in economics-driven pension privatisation policy discourses. She has addressed this omission by demonstrating that private pension provision may result in significant levels of econ…
Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada
Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada, Isla Carmichael, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. 219.Isla Carmichael has been writing about union pensions for a decade. Over the past ten years, she has examined different aspects of union-based pension funds and labour-sponsored investment, including fiduciary responsibility, the role of union pension trustees, social accounting, collateral benefits and econom…
Assessing the Capacity of Pension Institutions to Build and Sustain Trust: A Multidimensional Conceptual Framework
As policy makers have sought to reconfigure the public-private boundaries of their pension systems, trust has become an increasingly salient issue. At stake is the attainment of desired policy outcomes regarding retirement. By what criteria, then, should the capacity of pension institutions to build and sustain trust be assessed? This article emphasises the strategic importance of institutional design in the trust process. Building on Sztompka's …
Political science (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works)