The new regulatory state: regulating pensions in Germany and the UK

The new regulatory state: regulating pensions in Germany and the UK

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Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area. The contributing authors compare pension regulation and utility regulation, while others analyse the regulatory role of the EU. LUTZ LEISERING is Professor of Social Policy at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and Director at the Institute for World SocietyStudies. He has published widely on the sociology of the welfare state, comparative social policy, old-age security, poverty and social assistance and global social policy. He has advised on national and international policy. INDICE: Introduction: Towards a New Regulatory State in Old-Age Security? Exploring the Issues; 'L.Leisering' & 'D.Mabbett - 'PART I: THEORIES OF SOCIALAND ECONOMIC REGULATION - The Transformations of the Regulatory State; 'G.Majone - 'De-regulation and Re-regulaton of Public Utilities: The New Regulatory State in the European System of Multi-Level Governance; 'E.Grande ' - Limits to the Regulated Market: the UK Experiment; 'P.Taylor-Gooby - 'PART II: PENSIONPRIVATIZATION AND REGULATION IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY - Back to the State? The Public Policies of Private and Public Pensions in Britain; 'C.Marschallek - 'New Private Pensions in Germany: A Pension Market or a Branch of the Welfare State? Contested Regulatory Issues; 'F.Berner - 'PART III: THE ROLE OF THE EU - 'Social Europe' in Old-age Security? EU Policies of Public and Private Pensions; 'U.Davy - 'Policies of the EU towards Occupational Pensions: Limits to Regulation; 'M.Haverland - 'PART IV: COMPARATIVE AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES - TheRegulatory Politics of Private Pensions in the UK and Germany; 'D.Mabbett - 'The Regulatory Policies of Private Pensions in the UK and Germany: Goals and Instruments of Regulation in a Welfare State Environment; 'L.Leisering - 'PART V: CONCLUSION: IDENTIFYING THE NEW REGULATORY STATE - Varieties of Market Regulation: Comparing the New Pension Regulation to the Regulation of Public Utilities; 'L.Leisering - 'Transformations of the State: Comparing the New Regulatory State to the Post-war Provider State;' L.Leisering - 'Varieties of the New Regulatory State: Comparing the UK and Germany; 'L.Leisering - 'Afterword: Rethinking the Nation State; 'L.Leisering'

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-27205-7
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 336
  • Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés