Representing the future in aging societies: Policy implications of the voting age reform in Germany

Bericht

Aging societies face a fundamental challenge: How to represent future oriented policies in the politics of today? Voting age reforms and, more generally, policies that encourage the participation of the youth in politics are discussed as one solution. In this report, we study whether voting age reforms are radical enough to save us from gerontocracy. We show that there are certain policy fields that have strong age gradients. Although these are very far from being linear and often go in unexpected directions compared to a view that sees voters as simple self-interested actors.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ZEW Expert Brief ; No. 22-04

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Alternde Bevölkerung ; Altersgruppe ; Wahlverhalten ; Politik ; Präferenztheorie ; Wahlrecht ; Deutschland ; EU-Staaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Asatryan, Zareh
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/271650
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET