Institutional Mismatch, Party Reputation, and Industry Interests
Understanding the Politics of Private-Heavy Pension Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6345705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margarita Gelepithis (University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 735-751 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032321717726923 |
| OpenAlex | W2768437680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
Private-heavy welfare systems, in which low or moderate state benefits are topped up by private welfare arrangements, are expected to undermine political support for the extension of social rights and perpetuate benefit fragmentation over time. And where low state benefits are means tested, political support is expected to be particularly prone to erosion. In this article I develop the argument that the combination of private pensions and means-testing does not always perpetuate fragmentation. Rather, it structures the policy preferences of pension industry representatives and right-of-centre parties such that these actors push for reforms to make the state pension more universal. I make my argument by examining the reform history of nine private-heavy pension systems in the three decades since 1980. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis maps the conditions under which universalizing reforms have occurred, and two case studies link institutional conditions to reform outcomes via the policy preferences of key political actors
Argument (complex analysis · Economics · Law and economics · Pension · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private pension · Public economics · Reputation · State (computer science · Welfare state · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Fuzzy-Set Social Science
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?
The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform
Just Institutions Matter
Age in the Welfare State
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach
The Comparative Method
Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences
What matters is what works’
The power of talk and the welfare state
Elderly bias, new social risks and social spending
The decline of the working-class vote, the reconfiguration of the welfare support coalition and consequences for the welfare state
Revisiting the left cabinet share
Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies
The politics and policies of welfare chauvinism under the economic crisis
Revisiting the Role of Labor
The New Politics of the Welfare State
Do mainstream parties adapt to the welfare chauvinism of populist parties
The End of a Labor Era in Australian Politics
Beyond Left and Right
Welfare-state Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1982-1998
Explaining Howard's Success
Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies
Still There But For How Long? The Counter-Intuitiveness of the Universal Welfare Model and the Development of the Universal Welfare State in Denmark
The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality
New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization
Inequality, Social Insurance, and Redistribution
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |