From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies.
One in five people in the EU and nearly one in ten in the world are now aged 65 and over. This demographic transformation is one of the great successes of the twentieth century and has profoundly altered the composition of electorates in many democracies. This article explores whether and how this p...
| Publicado en: | Political Quarterly Vol. 94; no. 3; pp. 452 - 462 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul-Sep2023
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