This essay is the last in a series written by Achim Goerres for the project “Ageing Democracies? Political Participation and Cultural Values Among the Elderly in Europe” financed by the Open Society Foundation. The complete project report with all essays and the reports written by the other project members can be found here. “With 20...
WeiterlesenHow the young get more than the elderly out of society – but not out of the state
Pieter Vanhuysse, University of Southern Denmark Accusations levelled against the baby boomer generation for hoarding too much wealth and wielding too much “grey power” in an age of “gerontocracy” have become commonplace across Europe. At the centre of this debate lies the question of what resources different generations pass on to each other –...
WeiterlesenThere will never be a political age conflict between the young and the old.
This essay is the fifth in a series written by Achim Goerres for the project “Ageing Democracies? Political Participation and Cultural Values Among the Elderly in Europe” financed by the Open Society Foundation. The complete project report with all essays and the reports written by the other project members can be found here. In this essay...
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Welchen Einfluss haben persönliche Veränderungen auf die Bereitschaft nicht-institutionell politisch zu partizipieren?
von Florian Gerls. Die Teilhabe am politischen Prozess ist zweifellos Grundpfeiler einer jeden Demokratie. Klassisch durch Wahlen realisiert fand in den 60er und 70er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts eine Zunahme von, bis dahin als unkonventionell bezeichneten, Formen politischer Partizipation statt. Demonstrationen, Bürgerinitiativen und Unterschriftenaktionen wurden zunehmend als Möglichkeit zur Ergänzung und später auch als...
WeiterlesenSocial inequalities within the group of older people impede the formation of a politically uniform bloc of older people
This essay is the third in a series written by Achim Goerres for the project “Ageing Democracies? Political Participation and Cultural Values Among the Elderly in Europe” financed by the Open Society Foundation. The complete project report with all essays and the reports written by the other project members can be found here. There are...
WeiterlesenAs we age, we do not grow politically more conservative. Age differences in political preferences are almost exclusively due to the ways different cohorts grew up.
This essay is the third in a series written by Achim Goerres for the project “Ageing Democracies? Political Participation and Cultural Values Among the Elderly in Europe” financed by the Open Society Foundation. The complete project report with all essays and the reports written by the other project members can be found here. One...
WeiterlesenThe political participation of older people is a multidimensional phenomenon within a changing context of political participation that varies widely across Europe.
This essay is the second of a series written by Achim Goerres for the project “Ageing Democracies? Political Participation and Cultural Values Among the Elderly in Europe” financed by the Open Society Foundation. The complete project report with all essays and the reports written by the other project members can be found here. At...
WeiterlesenNeue Ungleichheit beim Renteneintritt
von Prof. Dirk Hofäcker, Stefanie Köng und Moritz Heß Am 1. Juli 2014 verabschiedete die Regierung das Gesetzt zur abschlagsfreien Rente mit 63. Diese ermöglicht es Arbeitnehmern, welche 45 Jahre Beiträge zur Rentenversicherung gezahlt haben, ohne Abzüge mit 63 Jahren (ab 2015 steigt die Altersgrenze jedes Jahr um 2 Monate bis sie bei 65...
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