By Brittany H Bramlett
In Senior energy or Senior Peril, Bramlett examines the assertions that the expanding variety of older adult-concentrated groups around the usa shape a transforming into bloc of senior energy that would effect the redistribution of particularized welfare merits to older adults on the fee of more youthful humans. besides the fact that, others recommend that political impact declines with outdated age. Bramlett makes use of interviews and on-site examine at quite a few senior groups to discover what traits make an elderly neighborhood politically distinctive, and the influence of the neighborhood elderly context on citizens' political wisdom, safety-net coverage attitudes, efficacy, and political activity.
This path-breaking publication identifies the political behaviors, attitudes, and political attention of either older and more youthful citizens because it recounts the perceived and real political energy of seniors.
In the sequence The Social good judgment of Politics, edited by way of Scott McClurg
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