Politics And Old Age
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| Author | : A. Goerres |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2009-03-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0230233953 |
The first comparative analysis of the political behaviour of older people, using evidence from 20+ European democracies. In contrast to younger people across European societies, older people do not behave uniformly. For political participation in later life, it matters where and when individuals have grown up and in which country they become old.
| Author | : Jill Quadagno |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1988-02-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780226699233 |
Why did the United States lag behind Germany, Britain, and Sweden in adopting a national plan for the elderly? When the Social Security Act was finally enacted in 1935, why did it depend on a class-based double standard? Why is old age welfare in the United States still less comprehensive than its European counterparts? In this sophisticated analytical chronicle of one hundred years of American welfare history, Jill Quadagno explores the curious birth of old age assistance in the United States. Grounded in historical research and informed by social science theory, the study reveals how public assistance grew from colonial-era poor laws, locally financed and administered, into a massive federal bureaucracy.
| Author | : Hanna Falk Erhag |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2022-01-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030780635 |
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.
| Author | : Frank A. Pinner |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2022-08-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0520372743 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.
| Author | : James H. Schulz |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2008-05-15 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0801888646 |
| Author | : Pieter Vanhuysse |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1136598766 |
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.
| Author | : Plutarch |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691192111 |
Classicist Beneker translates three political essays written by the philosopher, statesman, and moralist Plutarch of Chaeronia. These essays are timeless reflections on the proper way to lead and serve, publicly, at least with respect to the European and American political traditions.
| Author | : Michael Kinsley |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2016-04-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1101903775 |
Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you’re gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson’s disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. “Sometimes,” he writes, “I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.” This surprisingly cheerful book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man’s journey toward the finish line. “The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting,” he writes. “Parkinson’s disease has fulfilled that obligation.”
| Author | : Meredith Minkler |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. This work explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old.
| Author | : Meredith Minkler |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2019-03-19 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1351842102 |
Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.
