This paper has a double purpose. First, the author intends to discuss what is in game when the public social security is changed for private systems based on individual savings. Second, she aims to analyze why the neoliberal reforms are accepted easier in Latin America (with exception of Brazil)...

This paper examines changes that the Swedish, German and Japanese production systems are currently undertaking. It argues that new economic and socio-institutional contextual conditions world wide, together with domestic events, are influencing a piece-meal change at the heart of the Swedish,...