From Democratic to Authoritarian Populism: Comparing Pre- and Post-2010 Hungarian Pension Policies
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Note: An earlier version of this paper appeared in the discussion paper series of the Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences as MT-DP – 2017/31. We express our gratitude to Róbert Iván Gál, Gábor Oblath and Péter Tölgyessy for their constructive remarks on previous versions of this paper, as well as to the participants of the 3rd Conference on the Role of the State in Varieties of Capitalism at the Institute of World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Center for EU Neighborhood Studies of Central European University (Budapest, Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2017). Of course, none of them is responsible for any remaining errors.
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Keywords
public pension systems; private pension systems; pension policy; authoritarian populism; democratic populism; Hungary;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
- J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
- P48 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
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