Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index. 1. Introduction -- 2. Origins of Social Preferences -- 3. Culture Creates Structure: Explaining Cross-Societal Institutional Differences -- 4. Cultural Mechanisms of Political Change -- 5. Reining In American Social Security Expansion, 1983 -- 6. The Soviet Struggle Over Consumer Price Subsidies, 1987-1991 -- 7. German Reluctance to Shift the Trajectory of Pensions, 1989 -- 8. Half-Measures on Japanese Public Pensions, 1985.

Classification

• LCC: HV1451

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: xii, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
• Edition Info: (alk. paper)

Subjects

• Aged -- Services for -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies
• Culture -- Political aspects

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