The Making of Ageing Policy: Theory and Practice in Europe - Rilegato

Ervik, Rune; Linden, Tord Skogedal

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ISBN 10: 1781952477 ISBN 13: 9781781952474

Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2013

Riassunto

Demographic changes transform societies and challenge existing institutional solutions and policies. The need for policies addressing these challenges has increasingly been put on the agenda. The Making of Ageing Policy analyzes these innovative policy ideas and practices at both the international and the national level.

The book provides insights into the value basis and justifications of ageing policies, the potential for conflict and how policy ideas are embedded in institutional defense and advocacy for institutional change and reform. In terms of policy ideas the economically focused 'productive ageing' dominates, but the book finds instances where the broader 'active ageing' approach has gained a hold in policymaking. Ageing policy reforms within pensions and labour market policy include measures to make people extend their working life. In long-term care reforms abound, and implies changes in the responsibility of financing and provision but the patterns across countries differ substantially.

The authors provide normative analysis of ageing policy ideas, divulge political conflicts and consensus on ageing policy, and contribute by describing and analyzing the changing institutional landscape of ageing politics and policies throughout Europe. It will prove insightful for academics and researchers in the field, but it will also appeal to practitioners who are increasingly dealing with demographic challenges across a wide number of policy sectors in their daily affairs.

Contributors include: M. Doyle, Z. Drozdzak, R. Ervik, L. Foster, I. Helgøy, N. Kildal, G. Lamura, T.S. Lindén, M.G. Melchiorre, E. Nilssen, J. Perek-Bialas, A. Principi, A. Ruzik-Sierdzinska, C. Schiller, V. Timonen, K. Turek, A. Walker

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Informazioni sull'autore

Edited by Rune Ervik, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS and Tord Skogedal Lindén, Department of Social Science, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edward Elgar Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1781952477
• ISBN 13: 9781781952474
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile