Protecting the Elderly: How Culture Shapes Social Policy

Aaron Wildavsky activities adherents adult American political Aslund associated basic socialization beliefs and values benefit reductions bifocal cultural biases central coalition conceptions consumer price subsidies contrast contributions corporatist culturally constrained Democratic distinctive institutional dominant early economic efforts egalitarians elderly faction favored Federal Republic Federal Republic's focused German Gorbachev Gorbachev 1995 Gosplan grid-group theory Helmut Kohl hierarchical historical contingencies human individualism individualistic industrial influence of rival initially instance institutional design institutional preferences issues Japan Japanese hierarchists Kohl Kohl's leaders Lockhart long-term nomic OECD ontologies particularly Party pensions perceived persons perspective Politburo political change Political Culture political elites problems rational choice theory Reagan reduced reform relative influence revenue increases rival cultures shifting social collective social insurance social policy social security socially interactive cultures societies Soviet Union three socially interactive tion tional tive United University Press value clusters various welfare Wildavsky workers Yoshida