Global Political Demography

Achim Goerres, PhD (LSE), is Professor of Empirical Political Science at the Department of Political Science and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Integration and Migration Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He specialises in the comparative study of individuals and politics in advanced industrial democracies with a focus on issues of population ageing and immigration. Pieter Vanhuysse, PhD (LSE), is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Department of Political Science and the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, and Senior Fellow of Social Sciences at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, Denmark. He has published widely in political sociology and political economy, focusing on welfare states, public policies, population change, and intergenerational transfers.

• 1. Introduction: Political Demography as an Analytical Window on our World.- 2. Migration in Political Demography: A Review of Evidence.- 3. Youthful Age Structures and the Risks of Revolutionary and Separatist Conflicts.- 4. Poverty and Religious Affiliation Worldwide, 1970-2010.- 5. Ageing China: The People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.- 6. Demographic Politics in Asia's Super-Size Democracies: India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.- 7. Getting old before getting rich (and not fully realizing it): premature aging and the demographic momentum in Southeast Asia.- 8. The Oldest Societies in Asia: The Politics of Ageing in South Korea and Japan.- 9. Demographic Change and Political Order in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda Deal with Youth Bulge and Politicized Migration.- 10. The Maghreb Region: Waithood, the myth of youth bulges and the reality of frustrated aspirations.- 11. It is all about the numbers of immigrants: Population and Politics in Australia and New Zealand.- 12. The Politics of Demography in Unequal Societies: Argentina and Brazil Compared.- 13. Political Consequences of Demographic Change in the US and Canada since 1990.- 14. Population Ageing, Immigration and the Welfare State: The Political Demography in Western Europe.- 15. Populations and Policies in a Younger but Faster-Ageing East Central Europe: The Political Demography of Missed Opportunity.- 16. Combating Low Life Expectancy and Low Fertility in Tumultuous Political Times: A Comparison of the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.- 17. Epilogue: Global Political Demography: A Depressing Outlook?.