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Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform
Mitchell A. Orenstein
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Paperback. Reveals how international institutions have played a seminal role in the development, diffusion, and implementation of pension reforms that are transforming the postwar social contract in more than thirty countries worldwide, including the United States. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 line illus. 22 tables. BIC Classification: JPB; JPH; LNTH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 283 x 2. Weight in Grams: 334.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
333g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691136974
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V9780691136974
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About Mitchell A. Orenstein
Mitchell A. Orenstein is the S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe .
Reviews for Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform
Winner of The 2009 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Governance Orenstein reports on the efforts and impact of so-called transnational actors
international organizations, global policy networks, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies
in contributing to significant reforms in the 'development, diffusion, and implementation' of new pension privatization plans... An excellent ... Read more
international organizations, global policy networks, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies
in contributing to significant reforms in the 'development, diffusion, and implementation' of new pension privatization plans... An excellent ... Read more