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

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.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

'In this pioneering book, Lutz Leisering brings together research on reglc.