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1 Introduction: Studying Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries

2 Organic Food and Farming Policy in Denmark: Promoting a Transition to Green Growth

3 The Success of Danish Wind Energy Innovation Policy: Combining Visionary Politics and Pragmatic Policymaking

4 Early Childhood Education and Care in Denmark: A Social Investment Success

5 ‘Living Longer, Working Longer’: An Unlikely Retirement Policy Success?

6 Cancer Treatment Policy in Denmark

7 Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards: A Qualified Success in Changing Male Dominance in the Boardroom

8 Student Financing for Social Equity in Norway, 1947–2020

9 Promoting and Democratizing Literature: A Norwegian Policy Success

10 Negotiating Dilemmas of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund

11 An All Too Successful Reform? The 1997 Overhaul of the Swedish Budget Process

12 The Swedish Carbon Tax: A Resilient Success

13 Gender Equal Parental Leave Use in Sweden: The Success of the Reserved Months

14 Sweden’s Policy of Neutrality: Success Through Flexibility?

15 The Swedish Child Vaccination Programme

16 Civil Protection Policies in Iceland: Collaboration Between Authorities and Volunteer Organizations

17 Towards an Icelandic Sustainable Energy System: Relying on Domestic Renewable Energy

18 Paid Parental Leave in Iceland: Increasing Gender Equality at Home and on the Labour Market

19 Back from the Brink: Iceland’s Successful Economic Recovery

20 The Finnish baby box: From a volunteer initiative to a renowned social security benefit

21 Quality in Finnish Comprehensive Schools: Entrenching Enhancement-Led Evaluation

22 The Finnish Model of Conscription: A Successful Policy to Organize National Defence

23 Gender Quotas for Municipal Executive Bodies in Finland

24 Housing First: Combatting Long-Term Homelessness in Finland

Index

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Authors and Contributors

List of Tables

5 ‘Living Longer, Working Longer’: An Unlikely Retirement Policy Success?

Content Provider	Oxford Academic
Author	Fritz von Nordheim Kvist, Jon
Editor	Caroline de la Porte
Abstract	With the Danish life expectancy indexing of pensionable ages as case, this chapter examines to what extent a policy that objectively can help avoid recurrent conflicts as well as large economic and social challenges, can be deemed a success, even though it fits poorly with the PPPE model, as it was adopted, tightened, and continued without involving major stakeholders, and is neither fair nor popular. After briefly introducing the demographic challenges to pensions and explaining the positive potential of linking the pensionable age to developments in longevity, the chapter presents the paradoxes of the Danish case. In 2006 Denmark was a rather unlikely candidate to take a vanguard position in pension reform. Its economic situation and the fiscal health of the pension system in no way necessitated such a policy. Raising the pensionable age did not fit the priorities of most of the political parties that supported its initiation. Even more remarkable: the policy was tightened in 2011 by a government in which the main parties had campaigned against it and it was first implemented (2014) and later continued (2020) by other reluctant governments. Given these oddities, the focus is on explaining which constellation of circumstances and actors allowed such a novel pension policy to be adopted and continued, how this conditioning affected its design, implementation and longer-term effects, and assessing to what degree and in what ways it has been, is and may continue to be a 'successful' policy in certain dimensions.
Related Links	https://academic.oup.com/book/44441/chapter/376662476/chapter-pdf/49827374/oso-9780192856296-chapter-5.pdf
Ending Page	107
Starting Page	88
ISBN	9780192856296
DOI	10.1093/oso/9780192856296.003.0005
e-ISBN	9780191946714
Language	English
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publisher Date	2022-09-22
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Political Theory Politics Social Sciences Pension Reform Longevity Indexing Early Retirement Denmark
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter
Subject	Social Sciences

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