The diversity and causality of pension reform pathways: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Carrera, Leandro N. ORCID: 0000-0001-6561-9427 and Angelaki, Marina (2020) The diversity and causality of pension reform pathways: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. Journal of Social Policy, 49 (3). 582 - 600. ISSN 0047-2794

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Abstract

Pension reform is one of the top public policy priorities in advanced industrialized countries due to population ageing and the significant weight of pension spending in governments’ budgets. As a result of these concerns European countries have engaged in varying degrees of pension reforms over the last three decades. The extant literature on pension reform focuses on structural, institutional and blame avoidance theories to explain how pension reform take place. Yet, how do different conditions combine to lead to significant pension reform outcomes? To answer this question we analyze a set of 48 pension reform cases in eight European countries since the late 1980s up until 2014 by using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Our main finding is that institutional, structural or blame avoidance theories cannot account by themselves for instances of significant pension reform. Rather, we find three pathways that combine structural and institutional conditions to lead to significant pension reform.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of...
Additional Information:	© 2019 Cambridge University Press
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Date Deposited:	18 Nov 2019 10:36
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 18:27
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102554

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