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This book examines how and why policies are reversed by focusing on post-communist backtracking on pension privatization.
List of contents
Figures and tables; Pension terminology; Preface; Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1: Introduction: explaining the puzzling reversal of pension privatization; 2. Backtracking on pension privatization around the world; 3. A theory of policy reversal; Part II. Global Trends in Pension Privatization Reversal: 4. Evidence on pension policy reversals from around the world; Part III. Pension Privatization Reversal under Moderate Reform; Overview of Case Studies: 5. Russia's staggered reversal of reform; 6. Russia's domestic stakeholders and backtracking on reform; 7. Variation in pension policy reversals: Hungary and Poland; Summary of case findings; Part IV. Conclusion: 8. The importance of understanding policy reversal; Appendix of interviews conducted by author; References; Index.
About the author
Sarah Wilson Sokhey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, a Faculty Associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science, and an Associate Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Her work on comparative political economy and post-communist politics has appeared in Party Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Business and Politics, and Economics and Politics. Her research has been funded by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
Summary
Why do governments backtrack on major policy reforms? Reversals of pension privatization provide insight into why governments abandon potentially path-departing policy changes. Academics and policymakers alike will find this work relevant in understanding market-oriented reform, authoritarian and post-communist politics, social security, and the politics of aging populations around the world.
