CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE “INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN AGEING SOCIETIES”
BUDAPEST, 8-9 JUNE, 2017
Organiser: Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Prof. Axel Gosseries (Université Catholique de Louvain),
Prof. Rainer Grote (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law,
Heidelberg),
Prof. Pieter Vanhuysse (Syddansk Universitet, Odense)
Deadline for abstract submission: 20 February 2017
Population ageing poses important challenges for societies in general
and their public finances in particular. One way to restore the
financial sustainability of welfare states would be to reform welfare
programmes that involve intergenerational redistribution, such as the
pension system. However, pensions systems are difficult to reform as the
elderly constitute an increasing proportion of the electorate. There is
thus a possibility that ageing countries will continue to accumulate
public debt, which shifts the burden of financing welfare-state
provisions on future generations. This is problematic in an ethical
sense since most accounts of intergenerational justice regard this as
unjust. As an alternative to reversible policy measures countries might
adopt more fundamental solutions to the problem of financial
sustainability. Countries might decide to defend the interests of future
generations in the constitution, might extend voting rights to children
or their representatives, or adopt solutions which decrease democratic
control over policy (e.g. independent pension management organization,
automatic stabilizers in the pension system).
We invite papers from all related disciplines (sociology, political
science, legal studies, philosophy, economics) dealing with one of the
following topics (or related issues): intergenerational conflict in
ageing societies, intergenerational redistribution in European welfare
states, political economy of pension reform, intergenerational justice,
constitutional responses to the sustainability challenge, Demeny-voting
and related proposals.
Submission:
Abstracts (between 300-500 words) should be submitted by 20 February
2017 to the following email address: [log in to unmask]
Authors will be notified about acceptance of their abstract by 15 March
2017.
Local organizers:
Márton Medgyesi (TARKI and HAS, Institute for Sociology), Attila Bartha
(HAS, Institute for Political Science), Róbert Gál (Hungarian
Demographic Research Institute), András Jakab (HAS, Institute for Legal
Studies).
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