The Romanian Pension System Reforms: Evidences from Legislative Roll Call Analysis

• Authors: Claudiu Barbu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There are important differences between all Eastern European countries regarding the implementation of pension system privatization. The differences regarding the political configuration between the countries from Eastern Europe might be a possible explanation for the amount of diversity in this area. The ideology of political parties that form or sustain the government that implements the reform can also be an explanation, but this influence must be studied beyond the cliché that stipulates that the right-wing parties will support the public pension system reform and the left-wing parties will oppose it. Armeanu (2010a) showed that there are countries where privatization was supported by the centre-left coalitions that needed to overpass a strong opposition made by the right-wing parties. Using the Ideal Point Estimation technique within the voting sessions related to pension reform during the last three Romanian legislatures, we will explain the formation of pro and against coalitions regarding the pension reform from Romania during the privatization process of public pension system. We also test the hypotheses of the model presented by Armeanu (2010a, 2010b), model that predicts the behaviour of political parties based on the position they have on a two-dimensional space related to the costs of pension reform.

Keywords

EN

pension privatization; pension system reform; party system; DW-NOMINATE multidimensional scaling; Romania

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 109-126

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-07-15

Contributors

author

Claudiu Barbu

• PhD Candidate in Sociology at the Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/subbs-2016-0005