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UNINA9910463963103321 |
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Autore |
Hennessy Alexandra |
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The Europeanization of workplace pensions : economic interests, social protection, and credible signaling / / Alexandra Hennessy [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014 |
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1-107-72094-X |
1-139-89478-1 |
1-107-72799-5 |
1-107-73035-X |
1-107-73210-7 |
1-107-72859-2 |
1-107-72398-1 |
1-139-64449-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Pensions - European Union countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 The European dimension of the pension challenge; 1.1 Summary of the main argument; 2 National pension regimes, supranational harmonization efforts; 2.1 Pressures on public pension systems; 2.2 Multiple identities of workplace pensions; 2.3 Politics of pension market integration; 3 The sources of pension reforms in Western Europe; 3.1 When and why do countries reform their pension systems?; 3.2 The Maastricht Treaty shock: pressure from "above"; 3.3 Empirical analysis; 3.4 Results; 3.5 Conclusion |
4 Informal signaling and EU-level bargaining4.1 Decision-making in the European Union: bargaining and procedural approaches; 4.2 The costs of adjusting to an EU-wide pension market; 4.3 Formal model; 4.4 Pressure from "below": domestic preferences over EU pension regulations; 4.5 What makes "domestic constraints" assertions credible?; 4.6 Conclusion; 4.7 Equilibrium characterization; How do |
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changes in the valuation of agreement affect the probability of bargaining breakdown?; 5 Single pension market; 5.1 Inefficient agenda setting in the early 1990s |
5.2 Efficient agenda setting in the early 2000s5.3 Taxation, investment rules, and biometric risk coverage; 5.4 Country variations; 5.5 Alternative explanations; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 The German position on EU pension policies; 6.1 The German workplace pension system; 6.2 Germany and EU negotiation failure in the early 1990s; 6.3 Domestic discourse - the Kohl era; 6.4 Germany and EU negotiation success in the early 2000s; 6.5 Domestic discourse - the Schroder era; 6.6 Domestic discourse - the Merkel era; 6.7 Conclusion; 7 The British position on EU pension policies |
7.1 The British workplace pension system7.2 Domestic discourse - the Thatcher era; 7.3 Britain and EU negotiation failure in the early 1990s; 7.4 Britain and EU negotiation success in the early 2000s; 7.5 Domestic discourse - the Blair era; 7.6 Conclusion; 8 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index |
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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. |
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UNINA9910338048803321 |
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Autore |
Moniz Bandeira Luiz Alberto |
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The World Disorder : US Hegemony, Proxy Wars, Terrorism and Humanitarian Catastrophes / / by Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XXIII, 455 p.) |
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International relations |
America - Politics and government |
United States - History |
World politics |
Europe - Politics and government |
International Relations |
American Politics |
US History |
Political History |
European Politics |
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1 Introduction: US, the Middle East, Syria, and Ukraine: A Dialectical Approach on Recent History -- 2 The US Republic and Its Transformation Into an Oligarchic Tyranny -- 3 The Military-industrial Complex in the West and the Opposing Power Sphere in the East -- 4 Nine-eleven and the Accelerated Mutation of the American Republic -- 5 An Astonishing Continuity: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama -- 6 A New US Strategy to Confront China's and Russia's Growing Military Power -- 7 From Soviet Union to Russian Oligarchic Power System, and Forwards to Putin -- 8 The USA/NATO Push Toward the East After the Collapse of the Soviet Union -- 9 The Real Reasons of Washington's Intervention in Libya -- 10 Geopolitical Lessons Learnt and Not Learnt: The Case of Syria -- 11 Chemical-weapons Attack in Ghouta as a |
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Pretext for USA Intervention -- 12 A New Piece in the Geopolitical Game: The Invention of Ukraine -- 13 Lenin's Incentive to Self-determination and Ukrainian Nationalism -- 14 Ukraine as Soviet Republicand After: Focus on Donbas -- 15 US Efforts on Drive a Wedge Between Ukraine and Russia -- 16 Russia Opposes a New Orange Revolution in Ukraine -- 17 The Ukrainian Shift Away from Russia, and Putin's Reaction -- 18 Crimea Back to Russia, and Economic Sanctions Against Russia -- 19 Ukrainian Regime Change, Civil War and the USA-Russia Proxy War -- 20 Ukrainian Separatists and the War in Donbas -- 21 The Ukrainian Government, the Rise of the Extreme Right, the Minsk Agreements, and the Persistence of Conflict -- 22 Ukraine: The Same Political Environment As in the Middle East and North Africa -- 23 Israel Under Right-wing Government -- 24 Netanyahu's Occupation Policy and the Israel-Palestian War -- 25 A New Cold War, a New Moscoe-Beijing Axis, and the Decline of American Hegemony -- 26 Epilogue: US Military-Financial Oligarchy and the Exporting of "Democracy" through war and Terror. |
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This book offers a historical analysis of the geopolitical and geoeconomic competition between the USA and Russia, which has recently heated up again due to the eastward expansion of NATO. The analysis departs from an exploration of the USA’s foreign policy and geopolitical ambitions by illustrating the influence of Wall Street and the military-industrial complex on the country’s political decision-making. The historical review covers a wide timespan, from the Second World War and the birth of NATO, to the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, to the rebellions that erupted in Eurasia, Northern Africa and the Middle East in the 2010’s, as well as the wars in the Ukraine and in Syria. By doing so, it reveals the influence of US neocons, the US intelligence services and the military complex on the Arab Spring, the Color Revolutions and the armed conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. Ultimately, the book depicts a new era of worldwide instability and disorder, dominated byviolence and arbitrariness. |
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