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Industrial Policy Revisited Open
In the past decade, there has been a global resurgence in attention to industrial policy (IP), a resurgence that cuts across political ideologies and geographic regions. IPs are inherently political, intimately connected to the roles of th…
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe Open
This paper provides a descriptive examination of trends in spatial inequality within the US, Canada and the UK and twelve European countries. It first draws on recent literature in American political economy which suggests that the transit…
Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run Open
How do political parties speak about education? While struggles over education played a foundational role in structuring modern partisan cleavages, scholars debate the extent to which parties still adopt distinct rhetorical stances on educ…
Do national innovation projects shape citizens’ public health behaviours? Open
This article investigates whether, in the context of rising nationalism, drawing attention to national innovation strategies influences public health behaviours, particularly vaccine uptake. It draws on an original two-wave panel study of …
Political inequality Open
The rise of economic inequality in the UK over the past four decades raises serious questions about the state of political equality in Britain. In this article, we analyse changes in political equality from voter participation to voting be…
Education as a tool of social equality? Open
Do political parties approach education with different social policy aims? We argue that while parties have adopted a common language of equality as an aim of education, they draw on different conceptions of it linked to diverging social p…
Political inequality Open
Political inequality', IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities Many of the changes in voting and turnout mirror those in other advanced democracies, but Britain's (Westminster) electoral institutions and structure of government distinctively s…
Center-Right Parties and Post-War Secondary Education Open
The massification of secondary schooling constitutes the key educational project of the first post-war period. However, the resulting educational structures differed in terms of streaming and standardization. Despite their historical oppos…
Pre-Analysis Plan for "Three Faces of the State: Protection, Punishment and Investment" Open
This is the registration of a Pre-Analysis Plan for “Three Faces of the State: Protection, Punishment and Investment.” Why do wealthy democracies devote different amounts of resources to education, welfare, and punishment? Though each area…
The politics of ageing: how to get policymakers to support lifecourse policies Open
Background Given that there is not much evidence that ageing imperils the finance and provision of health care, why do so many policymakers act like it does? Methods We break conventional wisdom down into myths and realities, identifying t…
Introduction Open
Life in an ageing society is a truly novel experience. For most of our species’ history, a large majority of people were young and life much beyond 60 seemingly a rarity (Thane, 2005). Now, populations around the world are ageing. It might…
The Implications of Win-Win and Win-Lose Policies for the ‘Ageing Crisis’ Open
The preceding chapters raise three issues that are crucial to understanding the politics of healthy ageing. First, older voters are not as powerful nor as unified as many politicians, think tanks and commentators often believe. While some …
The Coalitional Politics of Win-Wins Open
Despite the alleged bias towards older people in many political institutions in Europe, this chapter argues that policymakers often do not introduce the most effective policies for supporting healthy ageing. The following pages show that w…
Ageing and Health Open
One of the most important political and economic challenges facing Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies. Must ageing populations create conflict between generations and crisis for health systems? Our answer is no. The problem is…
Index Open
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Unequal Ageing: the Politics of Ageing As the Politics of Health Inequalities Open
One major implication of the previous two chapters is that the politics of ageing is actually the politics of inequality – not a chimera of intergenerational inequality, but rather the inequalities that scholars of politics, social policy …
Older People in Europe Open
We too often form our perspectives or design policies based on simplistic notions of generational warfare or stereotypes. Precise definitions and examination of data on the life conditions of older people lead us to the same conclusion as …
Ageing Equally: Politics, Health and Solidarity Open
Older people are not a homogeneous social group. Their needs and abilities, and the costs associated with providing for their well-being, vary with their socioeconomic status, gender, geographic location and health status, among other rele…
Conclusion Open
This book has, we hope, destroyed two straw men that are common in debates about intergenerational equity, spending and health. The first is the myth of ‘greedy geezers’ – the stereotype of a pampered pensioner, living off lavish old-age p…
Taking the high road: The politics of win-win approaches Open
Background Policy is rarely a direct reflection of public opinion. Party systems and patterns of political competition shape the way issues are presented in politics and the incentive politicians have to act on them. Despite the alleged pr…
Schools and Attitudes Toward Economic Equality Open
Do policies that shape equality in schools have effects on the type of society and polity that the citizens educated in them want? This paper examines this question by analyzing variation in the English schooling experiences using the Brit…
Replication Data for: Did State Responses to Automation Matter for Voters? Open
Replication Data for: Did State Responses to Automation Matter for Voters?
Did State Responses to Automation Matter for Voters? Open
This paper asks whether early responses to de-industrialization and automation shaped how those affected negatively by technological change responded politically. It begins by examining patterns of compensation, outlining cross-national di…
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