Global Political Demography

The Politics of Population Change
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-73064-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 459 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 738 g

This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all major political and policy aspects of population change as they play out differently in each major world region: North and South America; Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region; Western and East Central Europe; Russia, Belarus and Ukraine; East Asia; Southeast Asia; subcontinental India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; Australia and New Zealand. These macro-regional analyses are completed by cross-cutting global analyses of migration, religion and poverty, and age profiles and intra-state conflicts. From all angles, this book shows how strongly contextualized the political management and the political consequences of population change are. While long-term population ageing and short-term migration fluctuations present structural conditions, political actors play a key role in (mis-)managing, manipulating, and (under-)planning population change, which in turn determines how citizens in different groups react. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanhuysse, Pieter

Goerres, Achim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Political Demography as an Analytical Window on our World.- 2. Migration in Political Demography: A Review of Evidence.- 3. Youthful Age Structures and the Risks of Revolutionary and Separatist Conflicts.- 4. Poverty and Religious Affiliation Worldwide, 1970-2010.- 5. Ageing China: The People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.- 6. Demographic Politics in Asia's Super-Size Democracies: India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.- 7. Getting old before getting rich (and not fully realizing it): premature aging and the demographic momentum in Southeast Asia.- 8. The Oldest Societies in Asia: The Politics of Ageing in South Korea and Japan.- 9. Demographic Change and Political Order in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda Deal with Youth Bulge and Politicized Migration.- 10. The Maghreb Region: Waithood, the myth of youth bulges and the reality of frustrated aspirations.- 11. It is all about the numbers of immigrants: Population and Politics in Australia and New Zealand.- 12. The Politics of Demography in Unequal Societies: Argentina and Brazil Compared.- 13. Political Consequences of Demographic Change in the US and Canada since 1990.- 14. Population Ageing, Immigration and the Welfare State: The Political Demography in Western Europe.- 15. Populations and Policies in a Younger but Faster-Ageing East Central Europe: The Political Demography of Missed Opportunity.- 16. Combating Low Life Expectancy and Low Fertility in Tumultuous Political Times: A Comparison of the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.- 17. Epilogue: Global Political Demography: A Depressing Outlook?.

Über Autor(innen)

Achim Goerres, PhD (LSE), is Professor of Empirical Political Science at the Department of Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Integration and Migration Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He specialises in the comparative study of individuals and politics in advanced industrial democracies with a focus on issues of population ageing and immigration.

Pieter Vanhuysse, PhD (LSE), is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Department of Political Science and the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, and Senior Fellow of Social Sciences at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, Denmark. He has published widely in political sociology and political economy, focusing on welfare states, public policies, population change, and intergenerational transfers.