Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER I Public Sector Unions, Pensions, and Partisanship 16
6. CHAPTER II The Size and Fiscal Sustainability of State Pensions 38
7. CHAPTER III The Paradox of Financial Transparency 69
8. CHAPTER IV What Does Pension Debt Mean for What States Can Do? 96
9. CHAPTER V The Pluralist State, the Coalitional State, and the Disorganized State 126
10. CHAPTER VI Blowing Up the Pluralist Framework 153
11. Conclusion 175
12. Methodological Appendix 187
13. Notes 221
14. References 257
15. Index 279