The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems

Abstract

Processes of socio-economic changeindividualising society and globalising economics and politicscause large problems for modern welfare states.Welfare states, organised on the level of nation-states and built on one or the other form of national solidarity, are increasingly confronted withfor instancefiscal problems, difficulties to control costs, and the unintended use of welfare programs.Such problems -generally speaking -raise the issue of sustainability because they tend to undermine the legitimacy of the programs of the welfare state and in the end induce the necessity of change, be it the complete abolishment of programs, retrenchment of programs, or attempts to preserve programs by modernising them.This series of studies on welfare states focuses on the changing institutions and programs of modern welfare states.These changes are the product of external pressures on welfare states, for example because of the economic and political consequences of globalisation or individualisation, or result from the internal, political or institutional dynamics of welfare arrangements.By studying the development of welfare state arrangements in different countries, in different institutional contexts, or by comparing developments between countries or different types of welfare states, this series hopes to enlarge the body of knowledge on the functioning and development of welfare states and their programs.

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