Aging and Politics : Age Differences in Political Behavior in Comparative Perspective. / Smets, Kaat.
Handbook of Aging & Social Sciences. ed. / Kenneth Ferraro; Deborah Carr. 9th. ed. Elsevier, 2021. p. 287-300.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Aging and Politics : Age Differences in Political Behavior in Comparative Perspective. / Smets, Kaat.
Handbook of Aging & Social Sciences. ed. / Kenneth Ferraro; Deborah Carr. 9th. ed. Elsevier, 2021. p. 287-300.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Aging and Politics
T2 - Age Differences in Political Behavior in Comparative Perspective
AU - Smets, Kaat
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This chapter examines age differences in political participation in democratic societies by addressing a number of key questions. The first part of the chapter is dedicated to the question of when people start to develop political attitudes and behaviors and why the timing of these first-developed attitudes and behaviors is important. The second section of the chapter addresses whether early political experiences persist in later life (in other words whether political behavior is habitual) or whether these early experiences are over-written by newer experiences. The third section of the chapter focuses on what we know about aging and political behavior, and how the behavior of young people differs from that of older citizens. The final part of the explores the challenges and opportunities for research on aging: Which are the pivotal questions that are still unanswered? What new avenues of research merit attention?
AB - This chapter examines age differences in political participation in democratic societies by addressing a number of key questions. The first part of the chapter is dedicated to the question of when people start to develop political attitudes and behaviors and why the timing of these first-developed attitudes and behaviors is important. The second section of the chapter addresses whether early political experiences persist in later life (in other words whether political behavior is habitual) or whether these early experiences are over-written by newer experiences. The third section of the chapter focuses on what we know about aging and political behavior, and how the behavior of young people differs from that of older citizens. The final part of the explores the challenges and opportunities for research on aging: Which are the pivotal questions that are still unanswered? What new avenues of research merit attention?
KW - Age
KW - Age gap
KW - Political attitudes
KW - Political behaviour
KW - Impressionable years
KW - Life-cycle
KW - Cohort
KW - Generation
KW - Period
KW - Habit
KW - Life-long plasticity
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-0-12-815970-5
SP - 287
EP - 300
BT - Handbook of Aging & Social Sciences
A2 - Ferraro, Kenneth
A2 - Carr, Deborah
PB - Elsevier
ER -