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.
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... pension program spending but also the overall pro-elderly spending bias of welfare states (Castles 2009; Tepe and Vanhuysse 2010a). However, on their own, such findings do not suffice as evidence for elderly power. Alternative ...
... pension programs that award reduced benefits. He argues that this may be a ... spending bias Among the manifold political-institutional effects that ... spending. Instead, these biases are better explained by the historical choices of ...
... pension generosity, perhaps as a result of the institutional ways in which these regimes create a strong perception ... spending and in the general pro-elderly bias of welfare states. In fact, once one controls for welfare regime type, ...
... pension spending cutbacks. at least among EU member states, the adoption of the Maastricht criteria in 1991 has served as an independent additional source of pressure on social budgets, over and above the pressures caused by ageing ...
... retirement and pensions policies on the part of governments across Europe (e.g. ... pension programs from 65 to 67 and 68 years—significant and risky departures ... spending and prevent poverty in old age. Similarly, Sciubba's chapter ...
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1979 | |
1989 | |
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 | |
Population ageing the elderly and the generosity of standard and minimum | 1996 |
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