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Political Preferences and the Aging of Populations

Political-Economy Explanations of Pension Reform

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  1. Oliver Pamp

    1. Geschwister‐Scholl‐Institut für Politikwissenschaft, LMU München, München, Germany

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  • Publication in the field of social sciences

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-24
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  2. Introduction

    • Oliver Pamp
    Pages 25-33

  3. Aging and its Consequences

    • Oliver Pamp
    Pages 35-54

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 173-212
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About this book

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 data, logit and ordered-logit analyses tentatively confirm some of the model’s main implications.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Geschwister‐Scholl‐Institut für Politikwissenschaft, LMU München, München, Germany

    Oliver Pamp

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About the author

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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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Political Preferences and the Aging of Populations

  • Book Subtitle: Political-Economy Explanations of Pension Reform

  • Authors: Oliver Pamp

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08615-2

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-08614-5Published: 16 January 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-08615-2Published: 09 January 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 188

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International Political Economy, Demography

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