Privatizing pensions : the transnational campaign for social security reform / Mitchell A. Orenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orenstein, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alexander)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pensions--Government policy.

Pensions.

Social security--Government policy.

Social security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 216 pages)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of globalization that, unbeknownst to most citizens, shapes policies that used to be the sole domain of domestic politics? Privatizing Pensions reveals how international institutions--such as the World Bank, USAID, and other transnational policy actors--have played a seminal role in the development, diffusion, and implementation of new pension reforms that are transforming the postwar social contract in more than thirty countries worldwide, including the United States. Mitchell Orenstein shows how transnational actors have driven change in a policy area once thought to be beyond reform in many countries, and how they have done so by deploying their unique resources and legitimacy to promote new ideas, recruit disciples worldwide, and provide a broad range of technical assistance to government reformers over the long term. He demonstrates that while domestic decision makers may retain veto power over these reforms--which replace traditional social security with individual pension savings accounts--transnational policy makers play the role of "proposal actors," shaping the information, preferences, and resources of their domestic clients. Privatizing Pensions argues that even the most quintessentially domestic areas of policy have been thoroughly globalized, and that these international influences must be better understood.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. The Rise of Pension Privatization

Chapter Two. Evaluating the Impact of Transnational Actors

Chapter Three. A Model of Transnational Actor Influence

Chapter Four. The Transnational Campaign for Pension Privatization

Chapter Five. Domestic Enactment of Pension Privatization

Chapter Six. Transnational Influence and Its Limits

Chapter Seven. Analyzing Transnational Public Policy

Appendix. Understanding Pension Privatization

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.

ISBN:

9786612964794

9781400837663

1400837669

9781282964792

1282964798

OCLC:

705944548