Transformation als Lateinamerikanisierung?

Die neue rentenpolitische Orthodoxie in Ungarn und Polen

Abstract

The recent pension reforms in Central-Eastern Europe include partial privatisation of old age security and are clearly modelled on Latin American role models, thus reflecting the current mainstream in the international pension reform debate. This article asks for the rationale behind this institutional transfer, focusing on structural settings, actor constellations and the consequences of radical paradigmatic choice in Polish and Hungarian old age security.