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Alexandra Hennessy examines an area of Europeanization that has been largely ignored by political analysts: the development of an internal market for workplace pensions. This book offers an analysis of what is at stake in workplace pension reforms, tracing how different states approached them and how national political economy models have shaped actors' bargaining strategy at the EU level. Employing statistical analysis, formal modelling, and in-depth case study research, Hennessy highlights the role of informal signalling and communication processes in designing a common pension market. This book offers a theoretical framework that accounts for historical institutionalism, informal signalling processes and discourse in the Europeanization of workplace pensions - a must-read for students of comparative social and public policy, comparative politics and European politics.
List of contents
1. The European dimension of the pension challenge; 2. National pension regimes, supranational harmonization efforts; 3. The sources of pension reforms in Western Europe; 4. Informal signaling and EU-level bargaining; 5. Agenda setting and the single pension market; 6. The German position on EU pension policies; 7. The British position on EU pension policies; 8. Conclusions.
About the author
Alexandra Hennessy is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University.
Summary
This book examines an area of Europeanization that has been largely ignored by political analysts: the development of an internal market for workplace pensions. Employing statistical analysis, formal modelling, and in-depth case study research, the author highlights the role of informal signalling and communication processes in designing a common pension market.
