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Global pension policies : programs, frames and paradigms of the World Bank and the International Labour Organization /
Hauptbeschreibung Pension policies are traditionally and still today mainly legislated at the national level. This is due to the lack of a genuine global problem structure that would require transnational action in this field. Yet, in recent years the process of generating new pension policies has b...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Duncker & Humblot,
2009.
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| Series: | Schriften der Gesellschaft für Sozialen Fortschritt e.V. ;
Bd. 27. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Tables and Charts; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; Economic and political globalization; Transnational problems and global social policies; The particularity of global pension policies: International organizations as "teachers of norms"; The rise of global pension policies; The theoretical framework of analysis: Bringing together ideas, interests and institutions; Structure of the study and main hypotheses; Data and methodology; I. Ideas, interests and the emergence of international organizations as corporate actors.
- 1. Reductionist theories of international organizationsa) Neorealism; aa) The anarchic international system; bb) Patterns of state-interaction; cc) Organizations as instruments; b) Rational choice institutionalism; aa) States as rational actors; bb) Absolute gains and the enforcement of cooperation; cc) Reductionism and autonomy; 2. Theorizing emergence of international organizations; a) Symbolic interactionism; b) Social constructivism; 3. Emergence, autonomy and power of international organizations; a) High-order corporate actors.
- B) Knowledge-generation, epistemic communities and the productive power of discourses4. Ideas, interests and international organizations: A conceptual framework; a) Ideas and interests: Shifting relationships; b) Interests shape ideas: Programs and frames; c) Ideas shape interests: Paradigms; 5. Chapter conclusion; II. World Bank and International Labour Organization
- historical phases, institutional structures and activities; 1. The World Bank; a) From a financial institution to a knowledge agency; aa) Reconstruction and infrastructure projects (1944-1968).
- Bb) Poverty reduction and expansion (1968-1979)cc) Structural adjustment (1979-1995); dd) Towards a post-Washington consensus? (since 1995); (1) Criticism of the Washington consensus; (2) CDF and PRSP
- a new development approach?; (3) Criticism of the post-Washington consensus; b) Organizational structure; aa) The Board of Governors and the Executive Directors; bb) Special organizational units; (1) The Development Economics Vice Presidency: Gatekeepers of ideological mainstreaming.
- (2) The Human Development Network, the Sustainable Development Network and the role of the Social Protection Sectorc) Operational and ideational activities; aa) Lending and conditionality; bb) Knowledge-generation and agenda-setting; 2. The International Labour Organization; a) From a standard setting to a development agency; aa) International labor standards for workers (1919-1944); bb) Human rights and development (1944-today); (1) The Declaration of Philadelphia; (2) Poverty alleviation; b) Organizational structure; aa) The International Labour Conference; bb) The Governing Body.