The Aging Democracy
This article in Perspectives on Politics organizes the possible democratic effects of population ageing into participation, representation, and policy effects. Its focal case is Japan, where demographic ageing is especially advanced, but it frames the mechanisms as relevant to liberal democracies more broadly.
The article does not treat an all-powerful grey voting bloc as established. It reviews both claims of older-voter influence and work questioning the cohesion or policy power of such a bloc. That distinction is important for Moving cohort capture: demographic weight can change incentives without making age the dominant cleavage or proving selfish group voting.
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