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{ "title": "Unpacking Old-Age Security: A Deep Dive into Global Policies", "summary": "This book offers a comprehensive, comparative, and critical examination of old-age security policies worldwide, moving beyond traditional explanations to propose a new theoretical framework: neo-pluralism. It challenges the prevailing view that pension policies are solely the outcome of class conflict between capital and labor, arguing instead that a multitude of groups, including ethnic, religious, regional, and organized senior advocacy groups ('the grey lobby'), exert significant influence. The authors test this theory through in-depth historical case studies of four industrial nations (United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany) and three developing nations (India, Nigeria, Brazil), followed by a large-scale quantitative analysis of 50 countries