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The New Regulatory State

Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Lutz Leisering

    1. Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany
      Institute for World Society Studies, Germany

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Part of the book series: Transformations of the State (TRST)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Towards a New Regulatory State in Old-Age Security? Exploring the Issues

    1. Introduction: Towards a New Regulatory State in Old-Age Security? Exploring the Issues

      • Lutz Leisering, Deborah Mabbett
      Pages 1-28

  3. Theories of Social and Economic Regulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Transformations of the Regulatory State

      • Giandomenico Majone
      Pages 31-56

    3. De-Regulation and Re-Regulation of Public Utilities: The New Regulatory State in the European System of Multi-Level Governance

      • Edgar Grande
      Pages 57-79

    4. Limits to the Regulated Market: The UK Experiment

      • Peter Taylor-Gooby
      Pages 80-100

  4. Pension Privatization and Regulation in Britain and Germany

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Back to the State? The Public Policies of Private and Public Pensions in Britain

      • Christian Marschallek
      Pages 103-126

    3. New Private Pensions in Germany: A Pension Market or a Branch of the Welfare State? Contested Regulatory Issues

      • Frank Berner
      Pages 127-149
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Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area. The contributing authors compare pension regulation and utility regulation, while others analyse the regulatory role of the EU.

Reviews

'In this pioneering book, Lutz Leisering brings together research on regulation with research on old age security. Its comparative perspective is very helpful in terms of identifying policy alternatives and their implications. Here the focus on Germany and the UK, representing different worlds of public and private pensions, provides particularly interesting contrasts to learn from.'

- Joakim Palme, Director of the Institute for Future Studies and Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden

'What is the new regulatory state? The authors of this book identify this new type of state by way of comparison: comparing pensions politics to public utilities, comparing the regulatory welfare state to the provider state, and comparing the UK to Germany. A masterful blend of empirical inquiry and conceptual studies.'

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Policy, Bielefeld University, Germany

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany

    Lutz Leisering

  • Institute for World Society Studies, Germany

    Lutz Leisering

About the editor

FRANK BERNER Senior Researcher, German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin and Head of the Office of the Expert Commission for the National Social Report on the Situation of the Elderly in Germany ULRIKE DAVY Chair for constitutional and administrative law, social law, and comparative law at the Faculty of Law, Bielefeld University, Germany EDGAR GRANDE Professor for Political Science at the University of Munich, Germany MARKUS HAVERLAND Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Public Administration, School of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands LUTZ LEISERING Professor of Social Policy at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and founding member of the University's Institute for World Society Studies DEBORAH MABBETT Reader in Public Policy in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, UK GIANDOMENICO MAJONE Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy CHRISTIAN MARSCHALLEK Sociologist and Member of the REGINA Research Project at Bielefeld University, Germany PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent, UK, and Director of the ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk Programme

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