International Social Security Review

SJR and SCImago Ranking

International Social Security Review's 2010 SJR (SCImago Journal & Country Rank): 0.029
International Social Security Review's 2010 SJR Ranking: Q2 in the Public Administration Category
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Good governance in social security administration
The facets of governance are many and the processes of governance occur at different levels of action. Ultimately, however, governance must be understood as a means to an end. Most commonly, the concept of governance as it is practiced in social security speaks to efforts geared to support and foster improvements in all aspects of the internal management of social security administrations – to realize administrative excellence.

However, it may relate also to civic-society action to monitor social security rights and entitlements. It may cover formalized and inclusive processes of tripartite social dialogue – legitimizing processes that seek to build and maintain broad-based consensus in support of social security policy reform. At the level of the nation State, the establishment of social security programmes and regulatory frameworks with the strategic objective of satisfying the needs of citizens and residents may contribute to strengthening existing systems of national governance and, furthermore, support the processes of democratization and nation building. This perspective encapsulates notions of trusteeship or stewardship, to protect and advance the common interest. At a higher level, in support of global governance agendas, national social security systems represent integral institutional mechanisms for rights-based and inclusive approaches to social and economic development and, thus, are essential for well-being, stability and cohesion. A major objective of this special issue is to discuss all of the above as well as broader, related topics, to contribute to supporting the work of social security policy-makers, practitioners, analysts and researchers.

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Free access to the key article from Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond
Reforming pensions: Principles, analytical errors and policy directions
Nicholas Barr & Peter Diamond