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Most advanced democracies are currently experiencing accelerated
population ageing, which fundamentally changes not just their
demographic composition; it can also be expected to have
far-reaching political and policy consequences. This volume brings
together an expert set of scholars from Europe and North America to
investigate generational politics and public policies within an
approach explicitly focusing on comparative political science. This
theoretically unified text examines changing electoral policy
demands due to demographic ageing, and features analysis of USA,
UK, Japan, Germany, Italy and all major EU countries. As the first
sustained political science analysis of population ageing, this
monograph examines both sides of the debate. It examines the
actions of the state against the interests of a growing elderly
voting bloc to safeguard fiscal viability, and looks at
highly-topical responses such as pension cuts and increasing
retirement age. It also examines the rise of 'grey parties', and
asks what, if anything, makes such pensioner parties persist over
time, in the first ever analysis of the emergence of pensioner
parties in Europe. Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial
Democracies will be of interest to students and scholars of
European politics, and to those studying electoral and social
policy reform. Official publication date 1st January 2012.
Most advanced democracies are currently experiencing accelerated
population ageing, which fundamentally changes not just their
demographic composition; it can also be expected to have
far-reaching political and policy consequences. This volume brings
together an expert set of scholars from Europe and North America to
investigate generational politics and public policies within an
approach explicitly focusing on comparative political science. This
theoretically unified text examines changing electoral policy
demands due to demographic ageing, and features analysis of USA,
UK, Japan, Germany, Italy and all major EU countries. As the first
sustained political science analysis of population ageing, this
monograph examines both sides of the debate. It examines the
actions of the state against the interests of a growing elderly
voting bloc to safeguard fiscal viability, and looks at
highly-topical responses such as pension cuts and increasing
retirement age. It also examines the rise of 'grey parties', and
asks what, if anything, makes such pensioner parties persist over
time, in the first ever analysis of the emergence of pensioner
parties in Europe. Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial
Democracies will be of interest to students and scholars of
European politics, and to those studying electoral and social
policy reform. Official publication date 1st January 2012.
This open access book draws the big picture of how population
change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040.
Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss,
for the first time, all major political and policy aspects of
population change as they play out differently in each major world
region: North and South America; Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA
region; Western and East Central Europe; Russia, Belarus and
Ukraine; East Asia; Southeast Asia; subcontinental India, Pakistan
and Bangladesh; Australia and New Zealand. These macro-regional
analyses are completed by cross-cutting global analyses of
migration, religion and poverty, and age profiles and intra-state
conflicts. From all angles, this book shows how strongly
contextualized the political management and the political
consequences of population change are. While long-term population
ageing and short-term migration fluctuations present structural
conditions, political actors play a key role in (mis-)managing,
manipulating, and (under-)planning population change, which in turn
determines how citizens in different groups react.
This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse
welfare pathways that have been evolving across Central and Eastern
Europe. Beyond existing path dependency and neo-institutionalist
explanations, it highlights the role of explanatory factors such as
micro-causal mechanisms, power politics, path departure, and elite
strategies.
This open access book draws the big picture of how population
change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040.
Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss,
for the first time, all major political and policy aspects of
population change as they play out differently in each major world
region: North and South America; Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA
region; Western and East Central Europe; Russia, Belarus and
Ukraine; East Asia; Southeast Asia; subcontinental India, Pakistan
and Bangladesh; Australia and New Zealand. These macro-regional
analyses are completed by cross-cutting global analyses of
migration, religion and poverty, and age profiles and intra-state
conflicts. From all angles, this book shows how strongly
contextualized the political management and the political
consequences of population change are. While long-term population
ageing and short-term migration fluctuations present structural
conditions, political actors play a key role in (mis-)managing,
manipulating, and (under-)planning population change, which in turn
determines how citizens in different groups react.
This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse
welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern
Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of
explanatory factors such as micro-causal mechanisms, power
politics, path departure, and elite strategies.
Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social
inequalitites, the Central and Eastern European transitions from
communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably
peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected
political quiescence. It shows how reforming governments in Poland,
Hungary, and the Czech Republic have been able to prevent massive
waves of strikes and protests by the strategic use of welfare state
programs such as pensions and unemployment benefits. From a narrow
economic viewpoint, these policies often appeared to be immensely
costly or irresponsibly populist. Yet a more inclusive
social-scientific perspective can shed new light on these seemingly
irrational policies by pointing to deeper political motives and
wider sociological consequences.
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