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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List of figures
1979
Figures
1989
a qualitative comparative
2005
party
1920
Live longer work longer? Intergenerational fairness in retirement
1949
the persistence
1981
Accelerating smaller cutbacks to delay larger ones? The politics of timing
1975
with k 3 and 0 08 c 0 12 18 OECD countries 19811999
1980
the impact of public provision for families
2002
3 and 7 4
7
How family policies affect womens formation of domestic unions and
2009
policies and the likelihood of women living in unions
2023
an American perspective on the politics
2008
Index of terms
Index of names
Urheberrecht

Population ageing the elderly and the generosity of standard and minimum
1996

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Pieter Vanhuysse is Professor of Comparative Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark.

Achim Goerres is Professor of Empirical Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen.

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