Short Title

AGEING RESEARCH PROGRAMME

Full Title

Population Ageing from Political Science Perspective

Brief Description

The objective of the research programme is to establish the political science of population ageing in Hungary also by doing research on specific questions in the field. The programme consists of four research projects:
1. Political Conflicts between Generations

2.Political Behaviour of Generations: socialisation, attitudes and participation

3. Political Identifications of Generations
4. Political debates on the generations and the welfare state

Research Period

Since the beginning of 2012

Research Type

Research programme consisting of individual and team projects

Research Monitoring Body

The public of the Institute for Political Science and the Programme Committee

Project Supervisor

Balázs Kiss

Researchers

Márton Bene, Attila Bartha, Dániel Mikecz, Péter Róbert, Andrea Szabó, Gabriella Szabó, András Tóth, Tibor Valuch

Contact

Balázs Kiss (kiss.balazs@tk.mta.hu)

Research Summary

The programme studies population ageing from a political science angle. The premise is that population ageing takes effect on the political behaviour of citizens, of the media as well as of the political elite. Generation cleavages possibly emerge and play important parts in the Hungarian and European political processes. Generations may get in conflicts with each other in lobbying, at the distribution of well-fare provisions, in offline and online public spaces.
A couple of the issues to be analysed by the programme:
– The life cycle effects on political attitudes
– Political values and behaviour according to age cohorts
– Different kinds of political knowledge and various procedures as possible ingredients for identification and self-identifications
– Political debates on well-fare state