Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System

Opening the Orange Envelope
2016. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-57085-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

is a detailed study through Sweden's national pension system. With Sweden's recently reformed national pension system as the illustrative example, Nyqvist shows how new forms of governance effectively shift responsibility from state level to an individual level. She sheds light on how politicians, technocrats, and bureaucrats work to educate and foster the general public into responsible, hardworking, and financially literate citizens. This ethnographic example of how contemporary power works by way of new forms of governance, is an exploration into the art of governing of a large-scale governmental policy process

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nyqvist, Anette

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Insecurity as Incentive in Social Security Policy
2. The Politics of Pensions
3. The Swedish Reform–A Radical Compromise
4. The Technological Relocation of Responsibility
5. Governance Through an Orange Messenger
6. Voices of the Governed
7. Orange Agency and Insecurity

Über Autor(innen)

Anette Nyqvist is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.