Political Demography

Author : Jack A. Goldstone,Eric P. Kaufmann,Monica Duffy Toft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199945962

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Political Demography by Jack A. Goldstone,Eric P. Kaufmann,Monica Duffy Toft Pdf

The field of political demography - the politics of population change - is dramatically underrepresented in political science. At a time when demographic changes - aging in the rich world, youth bulges in the developing world, ethnic and religious shifts, migration, and urbanization - are waxing as never before, this neglect is especially glaring and starkly contrasts with the enormous interest coming from policymakers and the media. "Ten years ago, [demography] was hardly on the radar screen," remarks Richard Jackson and Neil Howe of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, two contributors to this volume. "Today," they continue, "it dominates almost any discussion of America's long-term fiscal, economic, or foreign-policy direction." Demography is the most predictable of the social sciences: children born in the last five years will be the new workers, voters, soldiers, and potential insurgents of 2025 and the political elites of the 2050s. Whether in the West or the developing world, political scientists urgently need to understand the tectonics of demography in order to grasp the full context of today's political developments. This book begins to fill the gap from a global and historical perspective and with the hope that scholars and policymakers will take its insights on board to develop enlightened policies for our collective future.

Author : Achim Goerres,Pieter Vanhuysse
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030730659

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Global Political Demography by Achim Goerres,Pieter Vanhuysse Pdf

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.

Author : Myron Weiner,Michael S. Teitelbaum
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 1571812547

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Political Demography, Demographic Engineering by Myron Weiner,Michael S. Teitelbaum Pdf

"A timely, stimulating, and very readable volume." - Journal of International Migration and Integration "Essays in the true sense ... they are readable, wide-ranging historically and geographically." - Population and Development Review "The essays are clearly written, well-reasoned and contain a wealth of examples...It will be read with profit by students who are looking for a readable and sensible overview of the field." - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies "Over the past decade, the impacts of demographic trends on international security and on peaceful relations between and within states have come to the fore in ways not seen since the aftermath of World War II. An evolving and more complex set of changes in the size, distribution, and composition of populations has become the basis for a new look at the security effects of changes in the size, distribution, and composition of populations. This book is an attempt to lay out the new look, to take issue with some of the prevailing views on the political consequences of population change and to suggest where the concerns are realistic and where they are not." (From the Preface) This book not only offers a magisterial analysis of the political effects of the dramatic population changes that are taking place in countries all around the world, it also represents the testimony of one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of migration and population studies. Myron Weiner, former Professor of Political Science at MIT and Chair of the External Research Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Michael S. Teitelbaum, a demographer, is Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York.

Author : Sciubba, Jennifer D.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788975742

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A Research Agenda for Political Demography by Sciubba, Jennifer D. Pdf

Exploring how demographic dynamism continues to shape the character of societies, this forward-looking Research Agenda offers insights into how the human population has undergone fundamental demographic shifts, and the impact these have had on how we organize ourselves politically, the design of our economic systems, and even our societal relationships.

Author : Jack A. Goldstone,Eric Kauffman,Monica Duffy Toft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Demography
ISBN : 159451948X

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Political Demography by Jack A. Goldstone,Eric Kauffman,Monica Duffy Toft Pdf

The field of political demography - the politics of population change - is dramatically underrepresented in political science. With an ageing population in the rich world and youth bulges in the developing world this neglect is glaring.Demography is a crucial part of the social sciences: children born in the last five years will be the voters, soldiers, and potential insurgents of future decades. Political scientists need to understand the connections between demographic and political changes.This book fills the gap and provides scholars and policy makers with insights which can help to develop enlightened policies for the future.

Author : Milica Zarkovic Bookman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135248222

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The Demographic Struggle for Power by Milica Zarkovic Bookman Pdf

The 20th-century demographic struggle for power translates itself into an inter-ethnic war of numbers. This book offers suggestions for structural alterations within states to sever the link between ethnic size and power, and thus eliminate the rationale for the demographic struggle for power.

Author : Isabelle Côté,Matthew I. Mitchell,Monica Duffy Toft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351117609

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People Changing Places by Isabelle Côté,Matthew I. Mitchell,Monica Duffy Toft Pdf

While migration and population settlement have always been an important feature of political life throughout the world, the dramatic changes in the pace, direction, and complexity of contemporary migration flows are undoubtedly unique. Despite the economic benefits often associated with global, regional, and internal migration, the arrival of large numbers of migrants can exacerbate tensions and give rise to violent clashes between local populations and recent arrivals. This volume takes stock of these trends by canvassing the globe to generate new conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions. The analyses ultimately reveal the critical role of the state as both an actor and arena in the migration-conflict nexus.

Author : Himani Bannerji
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551303895

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Demography and Democracy by Himani Bannerji Pdf

A collection of recent essays and articles, Demography and Democracy is Himani Bannerji's engagement with the nationalist currents that have become such crucial topics of discussion and debate in recent years. Topics covered include Hindu nationalism, Zionism, subaltern studies, the novels of Rabindranath Tagore, and issues of knowledge, ideology, and representation around the US invasion of Afghanistan. The essays are written from an anti-imperialist Marxist feminist standpoint and offer a bracing critique of contemporary ideologies.

Author : Parameswara Krishnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Demography
ISBN : 8176464716

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Political Demography of India by Parameswara Krishnan Pdf

Author : Myron Weiner,Sharon Stanton Russell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1571812628

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Demography and National Security by Myron Weiner,Sharon Stanton Russell Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : Myron Weiner,Michael S. Teitelbaum
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1571812539

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Political Demography, Demographic Engineering by Myron Weiner,Michael S. Teitelbaum Pdf

"Over the past decade, the impacts of demographic trends on international security and on peaceful relations between and within states have come to the fore in ways not seen since the aftermath of World War II. An evolving and more complex set of changes in the size, distribution, and composition of populations has become the basis for a new look at the security effects of changes in the size, distribution, and composition of populations. This book is an attempt to lay out the new look, to take issue with some of the prevailing views on the political consequences of population change and to suggest where the concerns are realistic and where they are not." (From the Preface) This book not only offers a magisterial analysis of the political effects of the dramatic population changes that are taking place in countries all around the world, it also represents the testimony of one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of migration and population studies.

Author : Martyn Barrett,Dimitra Pachi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429655371

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Youth Civic and Political Engagement by Martyn Barrett,Dimitra Pachi Pdf

What exactly is civic and political participation? What factors influence young people’s participation? How can we encourage youth to actively participate in their own democracies? Youth Civic and Political Engagement takes a multidisciplinary approach to answering these key questions, incorporating research in the fields of psychology, sociology, political science and education to explore the issues affecting youth civic and political engagement. Drawing on evidence that has been obtained in many different national contexts, and through multinational studies, this book provides a theoretical synthesis of this large and diverse body of research, using an integrative multi-level ecological model of youth engagement to do so. It identifies unresolved issues in the field and offers numerous suggestions for future research. Youth Civic and Political Engagement is an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, youth workers, civil society activists, policymakers and politicians who wish to acquire an up-to-date understanding of the factors and processes that influence young people’s civic and political engagement, and how to promote youth engagement.

Author : Charles Goodhart,Manoj Pradhan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030426576

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The Great Demographic Reversal by Charles Goodhart,Manoj Pradhan Pdf

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. “Whatever the future holds”, the authors argue, “it will be nothing like the past”. Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the world’s available labour supply, owing to very favourable demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into the world’s trading system. This book demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. The result? Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also anticipated to increase the share of labour, so that inequality falls. Covering many social and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic, the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism, retirement and debt finance, among others. This book will be of interest and understandable to anyone with an interest on where the world’s economy may be going.

Author : Eric Kaufmann
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847651945

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Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? by Eric Kaufmann Pdf

Dawkins and Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward. But most people don't read their books before deciding whether to be religious. Instead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate them against the elegant arguments of secularists. And what no one has noticed is that far from declining, the religious are expanding their share of the population: in fact, the more religious people are, the more children they have. The cumulative effect of immigration from religious countries, and religious fertility will be to reverse the secularisation process in the West. Not only will the religious eventually triumph over the non-religious, but it is those who are the most extreme in their beliefs who have the largest families. Within Judaism, the Ultra-Orthodox may achieve majority status over their liberal counterparts by mid-century. Islamist Muslims have won the culture war in much of the Muslim world, and their success provides a glimpse of what awaits the Christian West and Israel. Based on a wealth of demographic research, considering questions of multiculturalism and terrorism, Kaufmann examines the implications of the decline in liberal secularism as religious conservatism rises - and what this means for the future of western modernity.

Author : R.B. Bhagat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000574807

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Population and the Political Imagination by R.B. Bhagat Pdf

This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship. It explores the relationship between the state, citizenship and polity by reexamining processes related to census enumeration, population and citizen registers, and the politics of classificatory governmentality. Religion, ethnicity, caste and political class play a key role in determining community identities and the relationship between an individual and the state. Contextualizing the arguments and controversies around the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA 2019) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the book examines the processes of inclusion or exclusion of minorities and migrants as citizens in India. It focusses on the classification of irregular and refugee migration since independence in India, especially in the state of Assam. The book highlights how political imagination, as a theoretical framework, shapes the processes and strategies for enumeration and classification and thereby the idea of citizenship. Underlining the relationship between instruments of government, political mobilization and the resurgence of communal polarization, it also offers suggestions for alternative constructions of citizenship and an inclusive state. This book will be useful for students and researchers of population studies, population geography, migration studies, sociology, political science, social anthropology, law and journalism. It will also be of interest to policy makers, journalists, as well as NGOs and CSOs.