{"product_id":"senior-power-or-senior-peril-9781439911334","title":"Senior Power or Senior Peril","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the Baby Boomer generation ages, the number of senior citizens as a proportion of the overall electorate is going to reach record numbers. This fact prompted Brittany Bramlett to ask: When senior citizens make up a large proportion of the local population, are they politically more powerful, or are they perhaps more powerless?  In Senior Power or Senior Peril, Bramlett examines the assertions that the increasing number of older adult-concentrated communities across the United States form a growing bloc of senior power that will influence the redistribution of particularized welfare benefits to older adults at the expense of younger people. However, others suggest that political influence declines with old age. Bramlett uses interviews and on-site research at various senior communities to explore what qualities make an aged community politically unique, and the impact of the local aged context on residents' political knowledge, safety-net policy attitudes, efficacy, and political act\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is refreshing to see such a well written and thoughtful treatment of age from a contextual perspective.  I have not seen anything like this, and it is sorely needed in the literature.\"   --Joshua Dyck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2 Aged Communities\u003cbr\u003e3 What Makes an Aged Community?\u003cbr\u003e4 Conserving Political Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e5 Unconventional Attitudes\u003cbr\u003e6 Powerful or Powerless?\u003cbr\u003e7 Participation or Retreatism?\u003cbr\u003e8 Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Supplemental Tables for Chapters 4, 5, and 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408309494103,"sku":"9781439911334","price":56.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439911334.jpg?v=1730502385","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/senior-power-or-senior-peril-9781439911334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}