Introduction : towards a new regulatory state in old-age security? : exploring the issues / Lutz Leisering, Deborah Mabbett -- The transformations of the regulatory state / Giandomenico Majone -- De-regulation and re-regulation of public utilities : the new regulatory state in the European...

Introduced 20 years ago as a part of the 2001 pension reform, the Riester pension is meant to function as an essential component of the German pension system with the aim of compensating for decreasing public pensions. However, data collected by the SOEP show that this objective has not yet been...