Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area. The contributing authors compare pension regulation and utility regulation, while others analyse the regulatory role of the EU.

'In this pioneering book, Lutz Leisering brings together research on regulation with research on old age security. Its comparative perspective is very helpful in terms of identifying policy alternatives and their implications. Here the focus on Germany and the UK, representing different worlds of public and private pensions, provides particularly interesting contrasts to learn from.'

• Joakim Palme, Director of the Institute for Future Studies and Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden

'What is the new regulatory state? The authors of this book identify this new type of state by way of comparison: comparing pensions politics to public utilities, comparing the regulatory welfare state to the provider state, and comparing the UK to Germany. A masterful blend of empirical inquiry and conceptual studies.'

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Policy, Bielefeld University, Germany

Autorentext
FRANK BERNER Senior Researcher, German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin and Head of the Office of the Expert Commission for the National Social Report on the Situation of the Elderly in Germany ULRIKE DAVY Chair for constitutional and administrative law, social law, and comparative law at the Faculty of Law, Bielefeld University, Germany EDGAR GRANDE Professor for Political Science at the University of Munich, Germany MARKUS HAVERLAND Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Public Administration, School of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands LUTZ LEISERING Professor of Social Policy at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and founding member of the University's Institute for World Society Studies DEBORAH MABBETT Reader in Public Policy in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, UK GIANDOMENICO MAJONE Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy CHRISTIAN MARSCHALLEK Sociologist and Member of the REGINA Research Project at Bielefeld University, Germany PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent, UK, and Director of the ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk Programme

Inhalt
Introduction: Towards a New Regulatory State in Old-Age Security? Exploring the Issues; L.Leisering & D.Mabbett PART I: THEORIES OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REGULATION The Transformations of the Regulatory State; G.Majone De-regulation and Re-regulaton of Public Utilities: The New Regulatory State in the European System of Multi-Level Governance; E.Grande Limits to the Regulated Market: the UK Experiment; P.Taylor-Gooby PART II: PENSION PRIVATIZATION AND REGULATION IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY Back to the State? The Public Policies of Private and Public Pensions in Britain; C.Marschallek New Private Pensions in Germany: A Pension Market or a Branch of the Welfare State? Contested Regulatory Issues; F.Berner PART III: THE ROLE OF THE EU 'Social Europe' in Old-age Security? EU Policies of Public and Private Pensions; U.Davy Policies of the EU towards Occupational Pensions: Limits to Regulation; M.Haverland PART IV: COMPARATIVE AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES The Regulatory Politics of Private Pensions in the UK and Germany; D.Mabbett The Regulatory Policies of Private Pensions in the UK and Germany: Goals and Instruments of Regulation in a Welfare State Environment; L.Leisering PART V: CONCLUSION: IDENTIFYING THE NEW REGULATORY STATE Varieties of Market Regulation: Comparing the New Pension Regulation to the Regulation of Public Utilities; L.Leisering Transformations of the State: Comparing the New Regulatory State to the Post-war Provider State; L.Leisering Varieties of the New Regulatory State: Comparing the UK and Germany; L.Leisering Afterword: Rethinking the Nation State; L.Leisering