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Senior power or senior peril : aged communities and American society in the twenty-first century / Brittany H. Bramlett.
Van Pelt Library HQ1064.U5 B698 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bramlett, Brittany H., 1984- author.
- Series:
- Social logic of politics
- The social logic of politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--United States.
- Older people.
- Senior power.
- Older people--Political activity.
- United States.
- Older people--Political activity--United States.
- Senior power--United States.
- Political participation--United States.
- Political participation.
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- As the Baby Boomer generation ages, the number of senior citizens as a proportion of the overall electorate will reach record numbers. This reality prompted Brittany Bramlett to ask the question "When senior citizens make up a large proportion of the local population, are they politically more powerful or more powerless?" In Senior Power or Senior Peril, Bramlett investigates whether communities with increasing numbers of older adults across the United States form a growing bloc of senior power that will promote the redistribution of particularized welfare benefits to older adults at the expense of younger people or whether political influence actually declines with old age. Bramlett uses interviews and on-site research at various senior communities to explore the qualities that make an aged community politically unique and the impact of the local aged context on residents' political knowledge, safety-net policy attitudes, efficacy, and political activity. This path-breaking book identifies the political behaviors, attitudes, and consciousness of both older and younger residents as it explores the perceived and actual political power of seniors. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Aged communities
- What makes an aged community?
- Conserving political knowledge
- Unconventional attitudes
- Powerful or powerless?
- Participation or retreatism?
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439911334
- 1439911339
- 9781439911341
- 1439911347
- OCLC:
- 881824201
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