Reform And Responsibility In The Remaking Of The Swedish National Pension System

Author : Anette Nyqvist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137552402

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Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System by Anette Nyqvist Pdf

Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System is a detailed study through Sweden's national pension system. With Sweden's recently reformed national pension system as the illustrative example, Nyqvist shows how new forms of governance effectively shift responsibility from state level to an individual level. She sheds light on how politicians, technocrats, and bureaucrats work to educate and foster the general public into responsible, hardworking, and financially literate citizens. This ethnographic example of how contemporary power works by way of new forms of governance, Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System is an exploration into the art of governing of a large-scale governmental policy process

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Pension trusts
ISBN : 1137552417

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Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System by Anonim Pdf

Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System is a close up and detailed study through Sweden's remade national pension system. Nyqvist examines how a policy, such as a national pension system, shifts responsibility from state to individuals and, thus, work to reconfigure the state - citizen relationship

Author : Hege Høyer Leivestad,Anette Nyqvist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319530970

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Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs by Hege Høyer Leivestad,Anette Nyqvist Pdf

This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-scale professional gatherings have become key sites for making and negotiating both industries and individual professions. In fact, during the past few decades, conferences and trade fairs have become a significant global industry in their own right. The editors assert that large-scale professional gatherings are remarkable events that require deeper analysis and scholarly attention.

Author : Cris Shore,Susan Wright,Davide Però
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857451170

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Policy Worlds by Cris Shore,Susan Wright,Davide Però Pdf

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are productive, continually contested and able to create new social and semantic spaces and new sets of relations. Anthropologists do not stand outside or above systems of governance but are themselves subject to the rhetoric and rationalities of policy. The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them.

Author : Hadas Weiss
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788733946

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We Have Never Been Middle Class by Hadas Weiss Pdf

Taking apart the ideology of the "middle class" Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this ideology up to the age of financialization, it exposes the fallacy in the belief that we can all ascend or descend as a result of our aspirational and precautionary investments in property and education. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the USA and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This original meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors.

Author : Lotta Björklund Larsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785334115

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Shaping Taxpayers by Lotta Björklund Larsen Pdf

How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid, yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden’s most esteemed bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the application of tax law to ensure compliance and maintain legitimacy in society. This volume follows one risk assessment project’s passage through the Agency, from its inception, through the research phase, in discussions with management to its final abandonment. With its fiscal anthropological approach, Shaping Taxpayers reveals how diverse knowledge claims – legal, economic, cultural – compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.

Author : Susanna Alexius,Kristina Tamm Hallström
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782544470

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Configuring Value Conflicts in Markets by Susanna Alexius,Kristina Tamm Hallström Pdf

Economic values shape markets, as does sustainability, safety, decency, public health and democracy. Based on micro-process studies in a dozen markets, this multi-disciplinary book presents a typology of strategic responses to value plurality in markets and helps to explain how such value work influences market reform. Value plurality may be reinforced and turned into open conflicts, but also played down in configurations that neutralize, align, balance, or hierarchize values. By highlighting the role of values in markets, this book clarifies why and how markets are organized.

Author : Philip Mader,Daniel Mertens,Natascha van der Zwan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351390361

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The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization by Philip Mader,Daniel Mertens,Natascha van der Zwan Pdf

Financialization has become the go-to term for scholars grappling with the growth of finance. This Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the scholarship on financialization, connecting finance with changes in politics, technology, culture, society and the economy. It takes stock of the diverse avenues of research that comprise financialization studies and the contributions they have made to understanding the changes in contemporary societies driven by the rise of finance. The chapters chart the field’s evolution from research describing and critiquing the manifestations of financialization towards scholarship that pinpoints the driving forces, mechanisms and boundaries of financialization. Written for researchers and students not only in economics but from across the social sciences and the humanities, this book offers a decidedly global and pluri-disciplinary view on financialization for those who are looking to understand the changing face of finance and its consequences.

Author : Nils Brunsson,Mats Jutterström
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192547729

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Organizing and Reorganizing Markets by Nils Brunsson,Mats Jutterström Pdf

Organizing and Reorganizing Markets brings organization theory to the study of markets. The difference between markets and organizations is often exaggerated. Organizing exists in addition to other processes and phenomena that form markets: the mutual adaption among sellers and buyers as described in mainstream economics, and the institutions described in institutional economics and economic sociology. Market organization can be analysed with the same type of theories used for analysing organization within formal organizations. Through the use of many empirical examples, the book demonstrates how this can be done. The authors argue that the way a certain market is organized can be understood as the (intermediate) result of previous organizing processes. Questions discussed include: 'What drives market organizing and reorganizing processes? What makes various organizations intervene as market organizers? And, how are the specific contents of market organization determined?' The answers to these questions help to analyse similarities and differences among organizing processes in formal organizations and those in markets. Arguments are illustrated by in-depth studies of many types of markets. The book will open up markets as a field of study for scholars of organization.

Author : Samuel Pienknagura,Christopher Evans
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513596112

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Assessing Chile's Pension System: Challenges and Reform Options by Samuel Pienknagura,Christopher Evans Pdf

Chile’s pension system came under close scrutiny in recent years. This paper takes stock of the adequacy of the system and highlights its challenges. Chile’s defined contribution system was quite influential when introduced, and was taken as an example by other countries. However, it is now delivering low replacement rates relative to OECD peers, as its parameters did not adapt over time to changing demographics and global returns, while informality persists in the labor market. In the absence of reforms, the system’s inability to deliver adequate outcomes for a large share of participants will continue to magnify, as demographic trends and low global interest rates will continue to reduce replacement rates. In addition, recent legislation allowing for pension savings withdrawals to counter the effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, is projected to further reduce replacement rates and increase fiscal costs. A substantial improvement in replacement rates is feasible, via a reform that raises contribution rates and the retirement age, coupled with policies that increases workers’ contribution density.

Author : Harry R. Moody,Jennifer R. Sasser
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544371696

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Aging by Harry R. Moody,Jennifer R. Sasser Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′s The McGuffey Longevity Award Aging: Concepts and Controversies is structured to encourage a style of teaching and learning that goes beyond conveying facts and methods. This innovative text focuses on controversies and questions rather than on assimilating facts or creating a single "correct" view about aging or older people. Drawing on their extensive expertise, authors Harry R. Moody and Jennifer R. Sasser first provide an overview of aging in three domains: aging over the life course, health care, and socioeconomic trends. Each section then includes data and conceptual frameworks, helping students to make sense of the controversies and understand their origin, engage in critical thinking, and develop their own views. The Tenth Edition of this hallmark textbook includes amplified discussions focused on differences, diversity, structural inequalities, and inclusion, as well as contemporary issues, including climate change and immigration. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.

Author : Robert Holzmann,Edward E. Palmer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821361665

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Pension Reform by Robert Holzmann,Edward E. Palmer Pdf

This book presents 25 state of the art papers on the conceptual foundations and issues surrounding Non-financial, or Notional, Defined Contribution (NDC), country implementation of NDC (Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden) and case studies for countries where NDC is figured in the reform debate. This book is intended to be a handbook for academics and policy makers who want to become informed about what NDC is and to learn about the pros and cons of this attractive reform proposal.

Author : Mr.Benedict J. Clements,Mr.David Coady,Frank Eich,Mr.Sanjeev Gupta,Mr.Alvar Kangur,Baoping Shang,Mauricio Soto
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475566314

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The Challenge of Public Pension Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies by Mr.Benedict J. Clements,Mr.David Coady,Frank Eich,Mr.Sanjeev Gupta,Mr.Alvar Kangur,Baoping Shang,Mauricio Soto Pdf

Pension reform is high on the policy agenda of many advanced and emerging market economies. In advanced economies the challenge is generally to contain future increases in public pension spending as the population ages. In emerging market economies, the challenges are often different. Where pension coverage is extensive, the issues are similar to those in advanced economies. Where pension coverage is low, the key challenge will be to expand coverage in a fiscally sustainable manner. This volume examines the outlook for public pension spending over the coming decades and the options for reform in 52 advanced and emerging market economies.

Author : Christina Hedblom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132639779

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The Body is Made to Move by Christina Hedblom Pdf

Author : János Kornai,Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521774888

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Reforming the State by János Kornai,Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman Pdf

The essays in this volume, first published in 2001, examine fiscal policy-making and providing for social welfare in post-socialist countries.