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

ISBN-13: 9780415603829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str.

Pieter Vanhuysse; Achim Goerres

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Mapping the Field: Comparative Generational Politics and Policies in Ageing Democracies Achim Goerres and Pieter Vanhuysse  2. Explaining the Success of Pensioners’ Parties: A Qualitative-Comparative Analysis of 31 Polities Séan Hanley  3. Rhetoric and Action on Ageing in the World's 'Oldest' Democracies: Party Platforms and Labor Policies in Germany, Italy and Japan Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba  4. Live Longer, Work Longer? Intergenerational Fairness in Retirement Age Reforms in Germany and the United Kingdom Martin Hering  5. Pension Regimes, Gender and Generational Inequalities: The Persistence of Institutional Differences in Ageing Post-Industrial Democracies Mehmet F. Aysan  6. Accelerating Smaller Cutbacks to Delay Larger Ones? The Politics of Timing and Alarm Bells in OECD Pension Generosity Retrenchment Markus Tepe and Pieter Vanhuysse  7. Population Ageing, the Elderly, and the Generosity of Standard and Minimum Pensions Juan Fernandez  8. The Family and the Welfare State: The Impact of Public Provision for Families on Young People's Demand for Public Childcare Across 21 Nations Achim Goerres and Marcus Tepe  9. Cohort, Class and Attitudes to Redistribution in Two Liberal Welfare States: Britain and the United States, 1996-2006 Jonas Edlund and Stefan Svallfors  10. How Family Policies Affect Women's Formation of Domestic Unions - And Why it Matters for Fertility Andrej Kokkonen  11. Epilogue: Conflict and Convergence: An American Perspective on the Politics of Ageing Welfare Atates Robert B. Hudson

O autorze

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.