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Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective »

Authors: John B. Williamson, Fred C. Pampel
ISBN-13: 9780195068597, ISBN-10: 0195068599
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: March 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: John B. Williamson

Boston College

niversity of Colorado, Boulder

Book Synopsis

This work makes extensive use of seven well-developed historical case studies describing the evolution of public old-age security in industrial nations (Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States) and developing nations (Brazil, Nigeria, and India). The authors focus on specifying contexts in which general theoretical perspectives can be used to account for these developments. One of the few studies which integrates historical and quantitative data, this accessible work will prove helpful to students and researchers of the welfare state, aging policy, and comparative sociology.

1	Introduction	3
	Theories of Old-Age Security Policy Development	5
	Structure of the Book	19
2	Germany	22
	Developments Before 1900	23
	Developments Since 1900	28
	Accounting for Developments in Germany	34
3	United Kingdom	43
	Developments Before 1900	43
	Movement Toward Enactment	49
	Postwar Policy Developments	52
	Accounting for Developments in Britain	56
4	Sweden	65
	Early Developments: Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries	65
	The Original Pension Legislation	68
	Developments Between the Wars	72
	Postwar Policy Developments	73
	Accounting for Developments in Sweden	79
5	United States	87
	Early Developments: Military, Union, and Corporate Pensions	87
	Movement Toward a National Pension System	92
	The Social Security Act of 1935	95
	Developments Since World War II	99
	Current Policy	103
	Accounting for Developments in the United States	104
6	Brazil	117
	The Colonial Era and the Empire	118
	The Old Republic (1889-1930)	120
	The Vargas Era (1930-1945)	123
	The Populist Era (1945-1964)	127
	The Era of Military Rule (1964-1985)	129
	Comparisons with Other Latin American Nations	133
	Accounting for Developments in Brazil	136
7	India	141
	Early History: Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries	142
	The Era of the Independence Movement	144
	Policy Developments Since Independence	149
	An Evaluation of India's Provident Fund Approach	152
	Accounting for Developments in India	154
8	Nigeria	164
	The Colonial Era	165
	Developments Since Independence	168
	Nigeria's National Provident Fund	171
	Public Pension Policy in the Ivory Coast	175
	Accounting for Developments in Nigeria	176
9	Cross-National Analysis	183
	The Theoretical Approach: A Review and Extension	184
	Research Design, Data, and Measurement	190
	Results for the Industrial Nations	194
	Results for the Third World Nations	198
	Comparisons with the Case Studies	201
	Appendix: Sources of Data	206
10	Toward an Empirical and Theoretical Synthesis	207
	The Social Democratic Thesis	207
	The Neo-Marxist Perspective	211
	The Industrialism Perspective	215
	The Neo-Pluralist Perspective	218
	The State-Centered Perspective	222
	Notes	229
	Bibliography	269
	Name Index	293
	Subject Index	299

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