The Handbook of West European Pension Politics provides scholars, policy-makers and students with a complete overview of the political and policy issues involve

European pension systems are increasingly under pressure. In this book Giuliano Bonoli examines policymakers' efforts to cope, caught between public support for

Bruno Palier is CNRS Researcher at Sciences Po Paris. --

Social pacts – policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations – began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s. Th

Since the Treaty of the European Union was ratified in 1993, the European Union has become an important factor in an ever-increasing number of regimes of pooled