The New Regulatory State
Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK
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Varieties of Market Regulation: Comparing the New Pension Regulation to the Regulation of Public Utilities
Older traditions of thinking about regulation exist in several countries. In the more recent history of public policy it was public utilities and their privatization in European countries since the 1980s which...
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Varieties of the New Regulatory State: Comparing the UK and Germany
The UK and Germany differ in many respects: the two countries have been juxtaposed as specimens of a liberal market economy and a coordinated market economy respectively; as a liberal and a conservative-corpor...
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Introduction: Towards a New Regulatory State in Old-Age Security? Exploring the Issues
Are we currently witnessing the rise of a new regulatory state in the field of social security? The privatization of public utilities such as gas and water and the general liberalization of markets in European...
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The Regulatory Policies of Private Pensions in the UK and Germany: Goals and Instruments of Regulation in a Welfare State Environment
The interpretation of the (partial) privatization of social services in European welfare states since the 1990s is controversial. Social critics diagnose a ‘surrender of public responsibility’ (Gilbert, 2002) ...
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Transformations of the State: Comparing the New Regulatory State to the Post-War Provider State
The modern nation state is facing the double challenge of privatization and globalization (Leibfried and Zürn, 2006). The global pension fund capitalism links the two challenges. Some observers claim that the ...
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Afterword: Rethinking the Nation State
The move towards marketization in old-age security is not just the outcome of ‘neoliberal’ thinking, but reflects wider changes in society during the post-war decades. This includes cultural changes like indiv...
