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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2009
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
217
Publishing info:
Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan
Table of Contents:
1 Introduction: The Political Participation of Older People in an Era of Demographic Ageing
1.1 Exploring the political participation of older people in Europe
1.2 The ‘state of the art’ in the literature on the political participation of older people
1.3 A model for studying the political participation of older people
1.4 The country-level implications of age-related effects
1.5 Organisation of the book
2 An Age-Centred Model of Political Participation
2.1 Assumptions about human nature
2.2 A modified resource-based perspective on political participation
2.3 Age-related effects on political behaviour and their implications for ageing societies
2.4 Summary of propositions
3 Voting Participation
3.1 The cohort explanation of voting participation
3.2 Methodological excursion: an international cross-sectional approach
3.3 Independent individual-level variables
3.4 International cross-sectional regression analysis
3.5 Summary and discussion
4 Party Choice in Britain and West Germany
4.1 Voting for old age interests: the failure of grey parties
4.2 Descriptive analysis of age groups and political generations
4.3 Combined hypothesis testing in multivariate regressions
4.4 Summary and discussion
5 Membership of Political Organisations
5.1 The dynamics of changing membership structures
5.2 Analysing differences at the individual level
5.3 Longitudinal analysis of age structures of membership in 25 European countries
5.4 Summary and discussion
6 Non-institutionalised Participation outside Organisations
6.1 Average levels of participation and the age ratio by country
6.2 Longitudinal analysis of Western Europe 1981–2000
6.3 Multivariate regression analysis
6.4 Summary and discussion
7 The Experience of Older Participants in the English Council Tax
Protests in 2004/2005
7.1 The background of the council tax protests and protesters
7.2 Resources and motivation to protest in old age
7.3 The experience of social images of old age and protest
7.4 The lack of a common senior identity
7.5 Mobilisation and opportunities for older protesters
7.6 A new generation of protesting older people
7.7 Summary and discussion
8 Summary and Conclusions
8.1 Older people’s political participation – a summary
8.2 Why the findings matter for political behaviourists and social gerontologists
8.3 Why the findings matter for ageing democracies
Appendix
References
Rev. Type:
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Identifiers:
eDoc: 468547
ISBN: 978-0-230-22052-2
ISBN: 0-230-22052-5
ISBN: 978-1-349-30602-2
ISBN: 978-0-230-23395-9
DOI: 10.1057/9780230233959
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