Full Description
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Exploring how demographic dynamism continues to shape the character of societies, this forward-looking Research Agenda offers insights into how the human population has undergone fundamental demographic shifts, and the impact these have had on how we organize ourselves politically, the design of our economic systems, and even our societal relationships.
The Research Agenda first introduces readers to the foundations of demographic change: fertility, mortality and migration. Chapters examine the political impact of forced migration, urbanization, gender dynamics, the intersection of race, identity and electoral politics, religious and ethnic groups, and health. The implications of the geographic shift in population centres from the Global North to the Global South are also highlighted, as well as the relationship between demography on the one hand and political and economic power on the other.
This will be an invigorating read for social science scholars looking to develop their research or interact with current research trends, particularly scholars of human geography, development studies and geopolitics.
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Political
Demography 1
Jennifer D. Sciubba
PART I FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
2 Research in population aging: uncharted territory 17
Jennifer D. Sciubba
3 Progressing research on forced migration 29
Tiffany S. Chu
4 Urbanization: poverty, conflict, and climate
change as causes and consequences 45
Matthew Cobb and Alex Braithwaite
5 Sex, demographics and national security 61
Valerie M. Hudson
PART II IMPLICATIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE:
CONTEXT AND CONNECTIONS
6 Whiteshift: demographic change, populism and
polarization in the West 81
Eric Kaufmann
7 Wombfare: the weaponization of fertility 101
Monica Duffy Toft
8 Health and demography 115
Jeremy Youde
9 Population, rebellion and revolution 131
Jack A. Goldstone
10 A research agenda for youth policies and investments 147
John F. May
11 Demography and democracy 161
Hannes Weber
12 Demographic engineering and strategic demography 179
Michael S. Teitelbaum
13 The demographic dividend: positive prospects,
unclear path 199
Kaitlyn Patierno, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen and Smita Gaith
14 Forecasting in age-structural time 215
Richard Cincotta
15 A twenty-first century agenda for policy-relevant
demographic research 235
Suzanne E. Fry
Index
