What Older Americans Think (eBook)

Interest Groups and Aging Policy

Christine L. Day (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6112-5 (ISBN)

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As the much publicized "graying of America" progresses, political groups that lobby for the elderly have achieved enormous power and organizational success, with no sign of decline in the foreseeable future. What Older Americans Think provides a fresh look at these groups. Are older people united in support of increasing old-age benefits--or perhaps even obsessed with their own financial self-interest, as is sometimes alleged? Do younger people tend to oppose old-age benefits? Why do aging-based political organizations attract so many members? How do Washington policymakers see the "gray lobby"? Focusing on the last decade, Christine Day offers new answers to these and other questions.Drawing on survey data and interviews with organization leaders, congressional staff, and executive branch employees, Day presents an objective, rather than an impressionistic, view. Her findings dispel the myth that older people agree in a desire to receive expanded government benefits: they are no more likely than younger people to support more federal spending on the elderly, or to consider aging policy a highly salient issue. Day also reveals that while older people have become wealthier as a group, they have also become economically more diverse. Old-age interest groups have little control over the degree of inequality between the rich and the poor.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: AARP • activism • Administration on Aging • Adviser • Advocacy • Advocacy group • Ageism • Age segregation • Albert O. Hirschman • American National Election Studies • americans • Austerity • behalf • Big Government • bipartisanship • bureaucrat • Claude Pepper • Cohort effect • Colonial Penn • conservative democrat • Consultant • dependency ratio • developed country • disability insurance • Economics • Employee Retirement Income Security Act • Employment • Executive agency • Expense • family income • Fixed Income • forced retirement • Gerontology • Government • gray panthers • Group insurance • Incentive • income • Individualism • insurance • Interest group liberalism • Iron Law of Oligarchy • Issue network • Legislation • Liberalism • lobbying • Longevity • Longitudinal study • maggie kuhn • Mandatory retirement • Medicaid • Membership organization • Minority Leader • Multitude • NARFE • National Institute on Aging • national security • obsolescence • Old age security • Older Americans Act • Older Women's League • organization • Pension • Percentage point • Personal life • policy network • Political Action Committee • political agenda • Political endorsement • Political organization • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Poverty • Private foundation (United States) • Professional association • Public Opinion • questionnaire • Radicalism (historical) • Republican Party (United States) • Retard (pejorative) • Retirement • Retirement age • Retirement Community • right-wing politics • shortage • Social Class • Social Insurance • standard of living • Subsidy • Supplemental Security Income • Tax • tax relief • Thomas Hobbes • Underwriting • Unemployment • upper middle class • voting bloc • welfare • Workforce
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6112-8 / 1400861128
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6112-5 / 9781400861125