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100			_aCarrera, Leandro N. and Angelaki, Marina _926185
245			_aThe diversity and causality of pension reform pathways: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
260			_aJournal of social Policy
300			_a49(3), Jul, 2020: p.582-600
520			_aPension reform is one of the top public policy priorities in advanced industrialized countries due to population ageing and the significant weight of pension spending in governments’ budgets. As a result of these concerns European countries have engaged in varying degrees of pension reforms over the last three decades. The extant literature on pension reform focuses on structural, institutional and blame avoidance theories to explain how pension reform take place. Yet, how do different conditions combine to lead to significant pension reform outcomes? To answer this question we analyze a set of 48 pension reform cases in eight European countries since the late 1980s up until 2014 by using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Our main finding is that institutional, structural or blame avoidance theories cannot account by themselves for instances of significant pension reform. Rather, we find three pathways that combine structural and institutional conditions to lead to significant pension reform. – Reproduced
650			_aPension policy, Reform, Fsqca, Politics, Institutions _924506
773			_aJournal of social Policy
906			_aPENSION POLICY
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