The New Regulatory State: Regulating Pensions in Germany and the UK (Transformations of the State)

Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area. The contributing authors compare pension regulation and utility regulation, while others analyse the regulatory role of the EU. The contributors to this volume take stock of the move towards private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s, emphasizing the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions. They argue that whilst the provider state has been retrenched, private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state which follows on from the earlier regulatory state in public utilities. The contributing authors compare pension regulation and utility regulation, while others analyze the regulatory role of the EU. The burgeoning literature on regulation has paid little attention to the regulation of social security, while, conversely, social policy researchers have dealt with regulatory issues only in passing. This volume opens a dialogue between both groups of researchers. Private pension policy, which has tended to be a separate domain analyzed by economists and lawyers, is being drawn into the arena of wider welfare policies: the regulatory state meets the welfare state Introduction : towards a new regulatory state in old-age security? : exploring the issues / Lutz Leisering, Deborah Mabbett The transformations of the regulatory state / Giandomenico Majone De-regulation and re-regulation of public utilities : the new regulatory state in the European system of multi-level governance / Edgar Grande Limits to the regulated market : the UK experiment / Peter Taylor-Gooby Back to the state? : the public policies of private and public pensions in Britain / Christian Marschallek New private pensions in Germany : a pension market or a branch of the welfare state?, contested regulatory issues / Frank Berner 'Social Europe' in old-age security? : EU policies of public and private pensions / Ulrike Davy Policies of the EU towards occupational pensions : limits to regulation / Markus Haverland The regulatory politics of private pensions in the UK and Germany / Deborah Mabbett The regulatory policies of private pensions in the UK and Germany : goals and instruments of regulation in a welfare state environment / Lutz Leisering Varieties of market regulation : comparing the new pension regulation to the regulation of public utilities / Lutz Leisering Transformations of the state : comparing the new regulatory state to the post-war provider state / Lutz Leisering Varieties of the new regulatory state : comparing the UK and Germany / Lutz Leisering Afterword : rethinking the nation state / Lutz Leisering. Annotation Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area. The contributing authorscompare pension regulation and utility regulation, while others analyse the regulatory role of the EU