Together with Daphne Halikiopoulou, we have just published a new LSE blog on why knowing who is likely to vote for a party doesn’t explain a party’s success, summarising our recent article just out in the European Journal of Political Research. In the blog, we argue that improved data and methods have made it easier to understand how people’s attitudes shape their political preferences. Yet, drawing conclusions about national electoral outcomes from individual-level findings risks distorting how we interpret elections.
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The Atlantic cites my research on ageing
Idrees Kahloon has just published an insightful piece on ageing in the Atlantic, entitled “A Fine Country for Old Men: Geriatric Americans are hoarding wealth and power”, in which he also cites some of my work:
“According to Tim Vlandas, an Oxford political economist, advanced democracies around the world are reaching the point of “gerontonomia”—his term for a stagnating political economy set up to prioritize elderly citizens. These citizens punish their elected governments for inflation, which lessens the value of savings and pension payments. They are much more tolerant of unemployment, because they no longer work; slow growth, because their wealth has already accumulated; and high public debt, because their descendants will pay it. The result, Vlandas argues, is lower wage growth for those still working, and also worse outcomes for their children, as a result of lower social investment over the course of their lives.”
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The EBRD has just published an interesting report on demographic change. There is a very good chapter on the political economy of demographic change where they build on my research to argue that addressing the challenges that ageing creates is complicated by the different policy priorities of different age groups.
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