The Editors: Jørn Henrik Petersen is Professor of Social Policy and Klaus Petersen is Professor of Welfare History at the Centre for Welfare, University of Southern Denmark.

• Contents: Jørn Henrik Petersen/Klaus Petersen: Introduction – Klaus Petersen/Jørn Henrik Petersen: The Coalition of the Willing and the Breakthrough of the Welfare State - the Political History of the Danish People’s Pension – Dorottya Szikra: From Bismarck to the New Pension Orthodoxy: The Historical Development of the Pension System in Hungary – Pat Thane: Women and the Pensions System: the Case of Britain – Jørn Henrik Petersen: The ‘Benefit Formula’ in Danish Old Age Pensions – Winfried Schmähl: Proposals for Introducing a Public ‘Basic Pension’ in Germany - An Issue for two Centuries – Karl Hinrichs: Pension Reforms in Europe: Convergence of Old-Age Security Systems? – Einar Overbye: Pensions Can be Cut – Torben M. Andersen: Increasing Longevity and the Welfare State – Urban Lundberg: The Democratic Deficit of Pension Reform: The Case of Sweden.

The Editors: Jørn Henrik Petersen is Professor of Social Policy and Klaus Petersen is Professor of Welfare History at the Centre for Welfare, University of Southern Denmark.

• Contents: Jørn Henrik Petersen/Klaus Petersen: Introduction – Klaus Petersen/Jørn Henrik Petersen: The Coalition of the Willing and the Breakthrough of the Welfare State - the Political History of the Danish People’s Pension – Dorottya Szikra: From Bismarck to the New Pension Orthodoxy: The Historical Development of the Pension System in Hungary – Pat Thane: Women and the Pensions System: the Case of Britain – Jørn Henrik Petersen: The ‘Benefit Formula’ in Danish Old Age Pensions – Winfried Schmähl: Proposals for Introducing a Public ‘Basic Pension’ in Germany - An Issue for two Centuries – Karl Hinrichs: Pension Reforms in Europe: Convergence of Old-Age Security Systems? – Einar Overbye: Pensions Can be Cut – Torben M. Andersen: Increasing Longevity and the Welfare State – Urban Lundberg: The Democratic Deficit of Pension Reform: The Case of Sweden.

The Editors: Jørn Henrik Petersen is Professor of Social Policy and Klaus Petersen is Professor of Welfare History at the Centre for Welfare, University of Southern Denmark.

• Contents: Jørn Henrik Petersen/Klaus Petersen: Introduction – Klaus Petersen/Jørn Henrik Petersen: The Coalition of the Willing and the Breakthrough of the Welfare State - the Political History of the Danish People’s Pension – Dorottya Szikra: From Bismarck to the New Pension Orthodoxy: The Historical Development of the Pension System in Hungary – Pat Thane: Women and the Pensions System: the Case of Britain – Jørn Henrik Petersen: The ‘Benefit Formula’ in Danish Old Age Pensions – Winfried Schmähl: Proposals for Introducing a Public ‘Basic Pension’ in Germany - An Issue for two Centuries – Karl Hinrichs: Pension Reforms in Europe: Convergence of Old-Age Security Systems? – Einar Overbye: Pensions Can be Cut – Torben M. Andersen: Increasing Longevity and the Welfare State – Urban Lundberg: The Democratic Deficit of Pension Reform: The Case of Sweden.