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Institutional mismatch, party reputation, and industry interests : understanding the politics of private-heavy pension systems
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Gelepithis, Margarita (2018) Institutional mismatch, party reputation, and industry interests : understanding the politics of private-heavy pension systems. Political Studies, 66 (3). pp. 735-751. doi:10.1177/0032321717726923 ISSN 0032-3217.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321717726923
Abstract
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 paper 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 (fsQCA) 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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Old age pensions -- Australia, Old age pensions -- Canadá, Old age pensions -- Denmark, Old age pensions -- Ireland, Old age pensions -- Netherlands, Old age pensions -- New Zealand, Old age pensions -- Switzerland, Old age pensions -- United States, Old age pensions -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Political Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0032-3217 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 August 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 66 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 735-751 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0032321717726923 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 November 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 February 2018 |
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