How do politicians get away with path-breaking pension reforms?: The political psychology of pension reform in democracies

Pension Reform in Europe: Politics, Policies and Outcomes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 70-86

  Overbye, Einar ^a  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

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EID: 77956297923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203945681     Document Type: Chapter

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