Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Regulatory Federalism and the EU -- 2 Environmental Regulation in the EU -- 3 Environmental Regulation in the United States -- 4 Environmental Regulation in Germany -- 5 Environmental Regulation in Australia and Canada -- 6 Food and Drug Safety...

While the European Union (EU) professes a commitment to liberal democracy, in recent years it has allowed some member governments to backslide toward competitive authoritarianism. The EU has become trapped in an “authoritarian equilibrium” underpinned by three factors. First, the EU's...

Pension reform is an important topic, high on the agendas of most European countries, where countries are profoundly affected by an aging population, the result of lower fertility, and increased life expectancy, changes in family structure, and the effects of globalization. The book presents...

Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Title -- Foreword vii -- 1 Accelerating the European Pension Reform Agenda: Need, Progress,and Conceptual Underpinnings 1 -- 2 The Making of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe 47 -- 3 The Rediscovery of Politics: Democracy and Structural...