The Role of Politicians and Experts in the Preparation of the Czech Pension Reform

Abstract

Although pension systems are among the most stable elements of social szstems, even they evolve. In recent decades, dozens of social systems have joined in by enacting minor adjustementsor significant reforms.

Politicians as well as invited experts have been paying close attention to the topic. In this paper, we analyze the framework of the spirit and content of the discourse of the Czech pension reform between 2004 and 2005 with the aid of discursive institutionalism theory and methods of frame analysis.

Keywords

• pension reform
• the Czech Republic
• Discursive Institutionalism
• frame analysis
• politicians
• experts
• communication