The political future of social security in aging societies

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Label

The political future of social security in aging societies

Statement of responsibility

Vincenzo Galasso

Creator

• Galasso, Vincenzo, 1967-

Subject

• Case studies
• Case studies
• ECONOMICS/Political Economy
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
• SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law
• Social security
• Social security -- Case studies
• Social security -- Forecasting
• Sociale zekerheid
• Sécurité sociale -- Cas, Études de
• Sécurité sociale -- Prévision
• Veroudering (demografie)
• Social security -- Forecasting

Genre

• Cas, Études de
• Case studies
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Doubts about the ability of industrialized countries to continue to provide a sufficient level of retirement benefits to a growing number of retirees has fueled much recent debate and inspired a variety of recommendations for reform. Few major reforms, however, have actually been implemented. In The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies, Vincenzo Galasso argues that the success of any reform proposals depends on political factors rather than economic theory. He offers a comparative analysis of the future political sustainability of social security in six countries with rapidly aging populations--France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Using a quantitative approach, he finds that an aging population has political as well as economic effects: an older electorate will put pressure on politicians and policy-makers to maintain or even increase benefits. Galasso evaluates how each country's different political constraints shape its social security system, considering such country-specific factors as the proportion of retirees in the population, the redistributive feature of each system, and the existing retirement policy in each country. He concludes that an aging population will lead to more pension spending; yet postponing retirement mitigates the impact of this, and may be the only politically viable alternative for social security reform

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

368.4/3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HD7091

LC item number

.G34 2006eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography