谁在反对公共养老金改革:利益还是制度?——评《阶级分化与代际分裂:欧洲福利国家养老金政治的比较分析》

This essay is a short comment on the newly published book by Dr. Liu Ji,Class versus Generation Cleavages:A Comparative Analysis of the Politics of Pension Reform in European Welfare States,one of the monographs thoroughly exploring the welfare crisis in west European countries since the 1990s. The author focuses on the roles of the various social coalitions with veto powers during the retrenchment process of public pensions in 5 European countries. He finds out the causal relationship between the intensity...