Laying Down The Principles: How Local Socialist Achievements Spurred National Bourgeois Support for Noncontributory Pensions

IF 4.5 1区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
M. Rasmussen, C. Knutsen
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abstract: The authors develop a perspective of locally embedded welfare state development to explain how relatively weak national political actors can, nonetheless, shape national policy over time by pursuing local reforms. Empirically, the authors assess their argument by using municipality-level representative shares, data on noncontributory pension reforms, roll-call votes from parliament, and archival material from early twentieth-century Norway, in which several local governments introduced noncontributory old-age pensions before Norway adopted a national scheme. The authors show, first, how nationally underrepresented but highly institutionalized socialist parties with geographically concentrated support introduced local pensions. Over time, these parties thus shaped the possibility space for national reform, effectively locking the national policy agenda into a pension system preferred by the socialists—namely, noncontributory pensions. Citing high municipality-debt pressures in their constituencies, bourgeois politicians from districts with local pensions eventually supported and promoted national-level pension reform. This support, in turn, spurred the cross-class alliance required to establish a national noncontributory pension system.
制定原则:地方社会主义成就如何促使全国资产阶级支持非缴费型养老金
摘要:作者从地方嵌入式福利国家发展的视角,解释了相对薄弱的国家政治行为体如何通过推行地方改革来塑造国家政策。作者利用市级代表份额、非缴费型养老金改革数据、议会唱名表决以及 20 世纪初挪威的档案材料对其论点进行了实证评估,在挪威采用全国性养老金计划之前,几个地方政府已经引入了非缴费型养老金。首先,作者展示了全国代表性不足但高度制度化、拥有集中地域支持的社会主义政党是如何引入地方养老金的。随着时间的推移,这些政党塑造了国家改革的可能性空间,有效地将国家政策议程锁定在社会主义者偏好的养老金制度上,即非缴费型养老金。来自拥有地方养老金的地区的资产阶级政治家以其选区的高市政债务压力为由,最终支持并推动了国家层面的养老金改革。这种支持反过来又推动了建立全国性非缴费型养老金制度所需的跨阶级联盟。
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World Politics
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期刊介绍: World Politics, founded in 1948, is an internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science published in both print and online versions. Open to contributions by scholars, World Politics invites submission of research articles that make theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature, review articles, and research notes bearing on problems in international relations and comparative politics. The journal does not publish articles on current affairs, policy pieces, or narratives of a journalistic nature. Articles submitted for consideration are unsolicited, except for review articles, which are usually commissioned. Published for the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Affairs
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