Global Political Demography: The Politics of Population Change

Goerres, Achim; Vanhuysse, Pieter

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. 

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-08-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030730642

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73065-9

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 459.0