Im deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaat findet eine intergenerationale Umverteilung statt, welche wegen der gesellschaftlichen Alterung angepasst werden muss, so dass Generationenverhältnisse politisch relevant werden. Wie nehmen Bürger den Sozialstaat und Generationenverhältnisse in der alternden...

Whereas the call for a political science based study of older people and ageing is not new (Cutler 1977; Heclo 1988), relatively little unified progress has been made so far. This chapter maps the field of generational politics and introduces our edited volume "Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial...

When faced with the necessity of reforming welfare states in ageing societies, politicians tend to demand more solidarity between generations because they assume that reforms require sacrifices from older people. Political economy models, however, do not investigate such a mechanism of...