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Political Preferences and the Aging of Populations
Oliver Pamp
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Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 287.
Oliver Pamp analyzes the likelihood and extent of pension reforms from a political-economy perspective. It is shown that voters’ preferences for or against reforms are influenced by a societies’ demographic development, the generosity of its existing public pension scheme and its electoral system. The author extensively reviews existing formal models of pension systems, discusses their merits and limitations, and develops a three-period overlapping generations model. The model’s insights regarding individual reform preferences are then put into the context of different electoral systems, thus emphasizing the important role of electoral institutions in the aggregation of societal preferences. Finally, using cross-national survey ... Read more
Oliver Pamp analyzes the likelihood and extent of pension reforms from a political-economy perspective. It is shown that voters’ preferences for or against reforms are influenced by a societies’ demographic development, the generosity of its existing public pension scheme and its electoral system. The author extensively reviews existing formal models of pension systems, discusses their merits and limitations, and develops a three-period overlapping generations model. The model’s insights regarding individual reform preferences are then put into the context of different electoral systems, thus emphasizing the important role of electoral institutions in the aggregation of societal preferences. Finally, using cross-national survey ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Germany
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Weisbaden, Germany
ISBN
9783658086145
SKU
V9783658086145
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About Oliver Pamp
Oliver Pamp is lecturer for empirical and formal methods at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (Germany). His research focuses, among other things, on the political economy of government budgets and social policy.
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