The Brazilian public pension system

Policy changes, political effects

Bibliographic Data

ID9971264
AuthorsG Hochman (0000-0001-7834-336X, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, corresponding author), Iohn B Williamson (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Year1995
Volume48
Issue2
Pages31-47
Publication date1995-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Security Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-871X • E-ISSN: 1468-246X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-246x.1995.tb00428.x
OpenAlexW2060482909
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

This article discusses the reciprocal relationship between public pension policy and age‐based politics in Brazil, a nation with a public pension system that has the potential for influencing policy developments in other developing nations faced with the problem of how to extend social security coverage to the entire population. Our goal is to extend a line of analysis used in previous studies of industrial nations to the case of Brazil. Pension policy changes made during the 1960s and 1970s had a number of unintended consequences. One was the role these policy changes played with respect to the emergence of rural unions and age‐based interest groups: both are becoming increasingly important actors with respect to pension policy. We discuss the implications of the Brazilian case for policy options and outcomes in other newly democratic nations, particularly those in Latin America

Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Latin Americans · Pension · Pension system · Political science · Politics · Population · Public policy · Social policy · Social security · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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