With over 20 million people on its payroll, the government is the largest employer in the
country. Managing people who do the nation's work is of critical importance to politicians …

This study analyzes the diffusion of public sector pension reforms across the American
states between 1999 and 2012, a policy area notable for its fiscal implications as much as its …

Unfunded public pension obligations represent a great challenge for policy makers in the
American states. We posit that a part of pension underfunding relates to the level of public …

Public administration identifies social equity as a foundational pillar of the field; despite
many calls to action for research to emphasize equity, only 127 articles across 22 journals …

The large unfunded liabilities surrounding public pensions in the United States will ensure
the issue of comparable pay between the public and private sectors remains in the forefront …

Recent conflicts over public sector defined benefit pension funding have inspired polarized
debates about the need for reform, including the utility of replacing pensions with defined …

Defined benefit (DB) pension plans are the dominant retirement program for state and local
governments in the United States. However, in the last 15 years, some have given new …

The dramatically increased costs of maintaining many public pension systems after the
recent economic downturn have spurred a number of state and local governments to …

Around the time of their adoption, reformers argued pensions would help encourage public
employees to retire rather than remain in their jobs indefinitely. However, the significance of …

Approximately a quarter of US state and local workers' pension plans are not covered by
Social Security. This is problematic and sometimes surprising for many public sector …