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Mapping the Field:The Comparative Study of Generational Politics and Policies in Ageing Democracies
No full textWhereas the call for a political science based study of older people and ageing is not new (Cutler 1977; Heclo 1988), relatively little unified progress has been made so far. This chapter maps the field of generational politics and introduces our edited volume "Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Policies and Politics" (Vanhuysse and Goerres, eds., 2011). This book brings together an expert set of scholars to investigate generational politics and public policies within an explicitly comparative political science approach. It opens important political process black boxes by asking a number of central questions. How does population aging change political support for redistribution towards different age groups in society, including not just elderly people but also families with children? How, and when, do established parties in aging democracies implement policies that directly hurt the interests of the growing elderly voting bloc, such as pension generosity cutbacks and retirement age increases? Where, and when, do new ‘grey parties’ emerge on the political scene in Western and Eastern Europe and what, if anything, makes such pensioner parties persist over time? The answers provided in this volume promise to be of major interest to scholars in fields such as political economy, political sociology, social policy, comparative politics, demography, and gerontology
Mapping the Field:The Comparative Study of Generational Politics and Policies in Ageing Democracies
No full textWhereas the call for a political science based study of older people and ageing is not new (Cutler 1977; Heclo 1988), relatively little unified progress has been made so far. This chapter maps the field of generational politics and introduces our edited volume "Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Policies and Politics" (Vanhuysse and Goerres, eds., 2011). This book brings together an expert set of scholars to investigate generational politics and public policies within an explicitly comparative political science approach. It opens important political process black boxes by asking a number of central questions. How does population aging change political support for redistribution towards different age groups in society, including not just elderly people but also families with children? How, and when, do established parties in aging democracies implement policies that directly hurt the interests of the growing elderly voting bloc, such as pension generosity cutbacks and retirement age increases? Where, and when, do new ‘grey parties’ emerge on the political scene in Western and Eastern Europe and what, if anything, makes such pensioner parties persist over time? The answers provided in this volume promise to be of major interest to scholars in fields such as political economy, political sociology, social policy, comparative politics, demography, and gerontology
Introduction:Political Demography as an Analytical Window on our World
No full textThis chapter introduces the overarching questions of our edited book on the politics of population change worldwide, Global Political Demography (Goerres and Vanhuysse 2021). How do the political economy and political sociology traits of some population groups relative to others - notably in terms of numerical size and political capacity - affect public policies, political actions and political order via the intermediary of political and institutional processes? How does this then produce various feedback effects? What can macro-demographic profiles tell us about the political problems a country or a macro-region faced in 1990, faces today, and will be facing by 2040? We analyse key indicators from the new Global Political Demography Database that accompanies this book and summarize main findings from this first attempt to study the interplay between population change and politics globally. We put forward three propositions: (1) Even though political demography remains an unjustly neglected approach, the political consequences and the political embeddedness of population change lie at the heart of the social sciences at large. (2) Population change creates both short-term (migration; frustration) and longer-term challenges (population ageing; fiscal sustainability), all of which require political and policy solutions. (3) Political reactions to population changes follow context-specific paths as their level of salience is socially and politically constructed. Demography is not destiny: politics is key to how population change affects societies
Replication Data for: Busemeyer, Marius R./Goerres, Achim: Policy Feedback in the Local Context: Analyzing Fairness Perceptions of Public Childcare Fees in a German Town, Journal of Public Policy
No full textThe package contains the survey data and the statistical command files (Stata) necessary to replicate the findings.
The survey data are a stacked data set of ratings of vignettes. Respondents are a random sample of residents of the City of Konstanz in Germany in 2013. Ratings are nested in respondents. The data set also contains some contextual information from the boroughs where residents live
Replication Data for: Busemeyer, Marius R./Goerres, Achim: Policy Feedback in the Local Context: Analyzing Fairness Perceptions of Public Childcare Fees in a German Town, Journal of Public Policy
No full textThe package contains the survey data and the statistical command files (Stata) necessary to replicate the findings.
The survey data are a stacked data set of ratings of vignettes. Respondents are a random sample of residents of the City of Konstanz in Germany in 2013. Ratings are nested in respondents. The data set also contains some contextual information from the boroughs where residents live
Recenze: „Pieter Vanhuysse, Achim Goerres (eds.): Ageing Population in Post-Industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Policies and Politics
No full textrecenze knihy „Pieter Vanhuysse, Achim Goerres (eds.): Ageing Population in Post-Industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Policies and Politicsreview of book „Pieter Vanhuysse, Achim Goerres (eds.): Ageing Population in Post-Industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Policies and Politic
Politik in alternden Gesellschaften: Ein Forschungsüberblick
No full textDie Notwendigkeit sozialstaatlicher Reformen erhöht die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit für Ältere als politische Gruppierung. Die wissenschaftliche Diskussion über Politik in alternden Gesellschaften ist zumindest in Europa noch wenig entwickelt. Sie erstreckt sich auf die Analyse von Institutionen und Politikinhalten (Policies), die Auseinandersetzung mit dem politischen Verhalten von Individuen und kollektiven Akteuren und die normativen Diskussionen um notwendige politische Veränderungen. Achim Goerres gibt einen Überblick über den Stand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu diesem Themenfeld
Replication Data for: Evaluating the Response Effort and Data Quality of Established Political Solidarity Measures - A Pre-Registered Experimental Test in an Online Survey of the German Adult Resident Population in 2021
No full textThe dataset allows to replicate the results of the following article: Goerres, A., & Höhne, J. K. (2022; accepted). Evaluating the Response Effort and Data Quality of Established Political Solidarity Measures - A Pre-Registered Experimental Test in an Online Survey of the German Adult Resident Population in 2021. Quality and Quantity
Replication Data for: Question order effects: How robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe?
No full textThe dataset allows to replicate the results of the following article: Höhne, J. K. & Goerres, A. (2023; accepted). Question order effects: How robust are survey measures on political solidarities with reference to Germany and Europe? International Journal of Social Research Methodology
GRÜNE NRW-Räte: Soziales Zerrbild der Gesellschaft?
No full textIst in unseren Räten eher der gebildete und einkommensstarke Teil unserer Bevölkerung vertreten? Professor Achim Goerres von der Universität Duisburg-Essen sagt "Ja". Er hat mit seinen Koautor*innen nachgewiesen, dass in den Stadträten in NRW, ob in kleinen Gemeinden oder großen Städten, eher die "obere Schicht" der Bevölkerung unsere Interessen vertritt. Zwar haben sich die in der Studie befragten GRÜNEN Vertreter*innen im Bereich "Einkommen" als nicht ganz so stark im Vergleich zu anderen Parteien erwiesen, sie verfügen jedoch rundweg nur über höhere Schulabschlüsse. Für die Repräsentation der Menschen, die durch die Räte "regiert" werden, ist das kein gutes Ergebnis.
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