Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Policies and Politics

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Pieter 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.

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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
Index of terms
263
Index of names
269
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