THE POLICY OF D. CAMERON’S GOVERNMENTS IN RELATION TO THE BRITISH STATE PENSION SYSTEM (2010–2016)

Abstract

In the article the policy of the first (conservative-liberal) and second (conservative) governments of D. Cameron in relation to the British state pension system at the practical and ideological levels is analyzed and the goals and main content and results of this policy is determined. The author has come to the conclusion that, at a practical level, the activities of the executive authority were aimed at ensuring the stable operation of the state pension system in the face of an increasing rate of population aging, on the one hand, and obtaining electoral support for older British, on the other. In the ideological plane, the policy of D. Cameron’s governments in the considered direction of social policy was of a neoliberal nature, which was expressed in the desire of the authorities to increase the individual responsibility of pensioners for their financial well-being by changing the regulation of the state pension system.