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Demographic realities will soon force developed countries to find ways to pay for longer retirements for more people. In Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, with a focus on raising the retirement age, increasing retirement savings, and the political sustainability of reforms that will accomplish these goals. After a substantive and wide-ranging introduction by the editors that weaves together the demographic and economic strands of the story, the chapters present cutting-edge research, offering both theoretical and empirical analyses. Contributors examine such topics as the reform of key structural features of existing pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems, analyzing how benefits should vary with the age of retirement, labor supply elasticity after France's 1993 pension reform, and fiscal response to a demographic shock; the feasibility of PAYG reforms in the United States and the competition among state pension systems that results from labor mobility in Europe; and private, funded systems (increasingly perceived as necessary adjuncts to PAYG systems) in the UK, the US, and the Netherlands, and in terms of individual portfolio management. The editors conclude the volume with a study of recent German and UK reforms and their effects on personal savings.

IntroductionMarcel Morabito Part I: The responsibility of the national Executive power from the point of view of local territories Section 1: Theoretical Reflections Chapter 1: A European perspectiveMercedes Bresso Chapter 2: The responsibility of the national executive power in GermanyClaus Dieter Classen, Aurore Gaillet and Yoan Vilain Chapter 3: Is calling upon the courts a way to acknowledge the responsibility of the Executive?Virginie Donier Section 2: Regional Realities Chapter 4: The point of view of a state representativeLaurent Carrié Chapter 5: The point of view of an elected officialAndré Viola Conclusion: how do local actors participate in the strengthening or in the weakening of the holding to account of the Executive within modern democratic States?Stéphane Mouton Part II: National traditions and European culture Section 3: What impact do the traditions of the Member States have on the European practice of responsibility? Chapter 6: Are there common national traditions regarding the responsibility of the executive power?Luigi Lacchè Chapter 7: The accountability of the EU Commission as the EU's ExecutivePaolo Ponzano Chapter 8: Political accountability and role splitting of the Executive in EU Member StatesJacques Ziller Chapter 9: Political accountability within the European systemFabienne Peraldi-Leneuf Section 4: A common culture? National traditions, European challenges QuestionnaireJulien Padovani and Emilien Quinart Chapter 10: Parliamentarianism and accountability of the executive power on a European scale: the experience of the European ParliamentJuan Fernando López Aguilar Chapter 11: The scent of wild animalsSophie in't Veld Conclusion: On political responsibility and political control in the European Union Jean-Paul Jacqué Part III: Diversity of legal approaches Section 5: Democratic perspectives Chapter 12: The European convergence of the strengthening of the executive powerHanan Qazbir Chapter 13: Responsibility, accountability and legitimacy of executives: what role for the people?Audrey Bachert-Peretti Section 6: Disciplinary specificities Chapter 14: Administrative responsibility and responsibility of the ExecutiveHafida Belrhali Chapter 15: Understanding responsibility through the issues of the environment: towards a bilateral conception of responsibility?Malik Bozzo-Rey Chapter 16: A perspective on civil responsibilityJean-Baptiste Donnier Chapter 17: Responsibility of the Executive: cross-read approaches Amaia Errecart Chapter 18: The unique nature of political responsibilityCécile Guérin-Bargues Chapter19: Responsibility and sports: some remarks on a particular coupleClémentine Legendre Chapter 20: The difficulty of thinking about executive responsibility in a republic: a historical perspectiveFrançois Quastana Chapter 21: Of sheep and straw men: the accountability of the Executive from the perspective of political scienceOlivier Rozenberg Conclusion: For a common concept of 'responsibility' from a multidisciplinary perspectiveXavier Magnon Concluding Remarks: A kaleidoscopic approach to make (necessary) interdisciplinary communication possibleGuillaume Tusseau