The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Towards a New Regulatory State in Old-Age Security? Exploring the Issues....Pages 1-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Transformations of the Regulatory State....Pages 31-56
De-Regulation and Re-Regulation of Public Utilities: The New Regulatory State in the European System of Multi-Level Governance....Pages 57-79
Limits to the Regulated Market: The UK Experiment....Pages 80-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Back to the State? The Public Policies of Private and Public Pensions in Britain....Pages 103-126
New Private Pensions in Germany: A Pension Market or a Branch of the Welfare State? Contested Regulatory Issues....Pages 127-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
‘Social Europe’ in Old-Age Security? EU Policies of Public and Private Pensions....Pages 153-174
Policies of the EU towards Occupational Pensions: Limits to Regulation....Pages 175-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The Regulatory Politics of Private Pensions in the UK and Germany....Pages 191-210
The Regulatory Policies of Private Pensions in the UK and Germany: Goals and Instruments of Regulation in a Welfare State Environment....Pages 211-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-235
Varieties of Market Regulation: Comparing the New Pension Regulation to the Regulation of Public Utilities....Pages 237-253
Transformations of the State: Comparing the New Regulatory State to the Post-War Provider State....Pages 254-274
Varieties of the New Regulatory State: Comparing the UK and Germany....Pages 275-288
Afterword: Rethinking the Nation State....Pages 289-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-317