Global Political Demography The Politics of Population Change

• Other Authors: Goerres, Achim (Editor), Vanhuysse, Pieter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2021
• Subjects: Political science & theory; Politics & government; Comparative politics; Political Demography; Demography; Population Change; global macro regions; population ageing; youth bulges; migration; growth rates; ethnic groups; age groups; religious groups; political power; political regime stability; policy output
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

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.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (459 p.)

ISBN

978-3-030-73065-9
9783030730659

Access

Open Access