Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Policies and PoliticsPieter Vanhuysse, Achim Goerres Routledge, 17.06.2013 - 296 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
comparative generational politics and policies in ageing democracies | 1 |
a qualitative comparative analysis of 31 polities | 23 |
party platforms and labor policies in Germany Italy and Japan | 54 |
4 Live longer work longer? Intergenerational fairness in retirement age reforms in Germany and the United Kingdom | 79 |
the persistence of institutional differences in ageing postindustrial democracies | 106 |
6 Accelerating smaller cutbacks to delay larger ones? The politics of timing and alarm bells in OECD pension generosity retrenchment | 127 |
7 Population ageing the elderly and the generosity of standard and minimum pensions | 145 |
the impact of public provision for families on young peoples demand for public childcare across 21 nations | 178 |
Britain and the United States 19962006 | 206 |
10 How family policies affect womens formation of domestic unions and why it matters for fertility | 225 |
an American perspective on the politics of ageing welfare states | 248 |
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