Senior power or senior peril : aged communities and American society in the twenty-first century /

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As the Baby Boomer generation ages, the number of senior citizens as a proportion of the overall electorate is going to reach record numbers. This fact prompted Brittany Bramlett to ask: When senior citizens make up a large proportion of the local population, are they politically more powerful, or a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bramlett, Brittany H., 1984-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.
Series:Social logic of politics.
Subjects:
Older people > United States.
Older people > Political activity > United States.
Senior power > United States.
Political participation > United States.
Personnes âgées > États-Unis.
Personnes âgées > Activité politique > États-Unis.
Mouvements de personnes âgées > États-Unis.
Participation politique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Older people.
Older people > Political activity.
Political participation.
Senior power.
Politische Beteiligung
Politisches Handeln
Alter
United States.
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Aged communities
  • What makes an aged community?
  • Conserving political knowledge
  • Unconventional attitudes
  • Powerful or powerless?
  • Participation or retreatism?
  • Conclusion.

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