Protecting the Elderly How Culture Shapes Social Policy

Name: Protecting the Elderly How Culture Shapes Social Policy
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ISBN: 9780271022895

ISBN-10: 0271022892

ISBN-13: 9780271022895

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Charles Lockhart

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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

CHARLES LOCKHART is Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.



Preface






Introduction



Origins of Social Preferences



Culture Creates Structure: Explaining Cross-Societal Institutional Differences



Cultural Mechanisms of Political Change





Introduction to Part Two



Reining In American Social Security Expansion, 1983



The Soviet Struggle Over Consumer Price Subsidies, 1987-1991



German Reluctance to Shift the Trajectory of Pensions, 1989



Half-Measures on Japanese Public Pensions, 1985


Conclusions


References


Index