Out-liberalizing the EU: Pension privatization in Central and Eastern Europe

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 899-917

  Orenstein, Mitchell A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Conditionality; Pensions; Persuasion; Privatization; Transnational actors

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949128415     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501760802196853     Document Type: Review

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