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- Title
Pension Politics in Three Small States: Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.
- Authors
Anderson, Karen M.
- Abstract
This article emphasizes class politics and path dependence in accounting for the development of pension regimes in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. The political strength of the Swedish Social Democratic Party in alliance with the trade unions resulted in the emergence of a statist pension system. In the Netherlands and Denmark, a politically weak and divided left settled for collectively regulated but privately organized supplementary pensions. However, the Dutch and Danish cases suggest that several types of pension regime structure are capable of producing "social democratic" outcomes such as poverty alleviation, reducing income inequality, and covering various risk profiles. In both countries, private occupational pensions thus produced outcomes similar to those of Sweden. These historical choices decisively shaped the subsequent development of pensions.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; DENMARK; NETHERLANDS; PENSIONS; RETIREMENT income; PENSION laws
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 2, p289
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3654697