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Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective

This sociological study compares the evolution of old-age security policy across a spectrum of industrialized nations and developing countries.

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  • "This sociological study compares the evolution of old-age security policy across a spectrum of industrialized nations and developing countries."@en
  • "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."
  • "This book examines a central element of social welfare, old age security, exploring the history of policies in both developed and underdeveloped countries to assess their structure, ideology and effectiveness. The authors test five theoretical perspectives on old-age security policy in four industrial nations (the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany) and three developing countries (India, Nigeria, Brazil), challenging the view that old age policy is the outcome of class conflict between capital and labour. Instead, the authors adopt a neo-pluralist perspective which emphasizes the influence of ethnic religious and regional groups, as well as "the grey lobby", over that of class-based groups. The authors attempt to test ideas derived in part from these historical case studies by analysing quantitative data from a broader sample of countries (18 industrial nationa and 32 developing nations), and they use these results to anticipate future policy developments in the U.S."@en

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  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Étude comparée (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Landenoverzichten (vorm)"
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  • "Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)"

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  • "Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective"@en
  • "Old-age security in comparative perspective"@en
  • "Old-age security in comparative perspective"
  • "Yanglao baoxian bijiao fenxi"

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