Political Demography Research Articles

Trilingual Glossary of Demographic Terminology: English-Japanese-German/Japanese-English-German German-Japanese-English

Trilingual Glossary of Demographic Terminology: English-Japanese-German/Japanese-English-German German-Japanese-English

Identity, Urbanization and Political Demography in Greenland

From the early colonial days in the eighteenth century, Greenland's demographic structure, including people's movements from settlements to towns, have followed political decisions taken in Copenhagen and, after the introduction of Home Rule in 1979, inherited by the local authorities in Nuuk. In the 1970s, the Greenlandic resistance against this policy came to epitomize the defence of the traditional culture, which was associated with life in the settlements. This discourse regained some momentum towards the end of the millennium, but after the introduction of self-rule in 2009, a new discourse seems to have taken over, which may change close to 300 years of demographic thinking and have a significant impact on the roots and negotiation of identity.

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue.CórmacÓ Gráda Famine: A Short HistoryBrian P. Cooper Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859Richard Alba Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated AmericaOnn Winckler Arab Political Demography: Population Growth, Labor Migration and Natalist Policies Revised and expanded second edition SHORT REVIEWS by John Bongaarts, Eric P. Green, Susan Greenhalgh, Geoffrey McNicoll Cai Fang and Du Yang (eds.) The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 1: The Approaching Lewis Turning Point and Its Policy ImplicationsJessica Cohen and William Easterly (eds.) What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking SmallBjørn Lomborg (ed.) Global Crises, Global Solutions. Second edition.Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development Pensions at a Glance 2009: Retirement‐income Systems in OECD CountriesUnited Nations Population Division Completing the Fertility Transition, Population Bulletin of the United Nations, Special Issue Nos. 48/49 2002World Bank World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate ChangeTiantian Zheng Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism

To populate or preserve? Evolving political-demographic and environmental paradigms in Israeli land-use policy

There has been a recent proliferation of national land-use policies that emphasize protecting open space and ecosystem integrity. However, countries grappling with internal political conflict, or that are engaged in military conflicts with neighboring countries, have priorities that focus on control of land in areas where state sovereignty is perceived to be threatened. These two concerns, political-demographic control and environmental protection, create very different paradigms for how to think about open space policy. The objective of this paper is to consider the impact of competing paradigms in land-use policy formulation and implementation—one that encourages sprawl and the other that encourages compact development and the preservation of open space. We use Israel as a case study where both political demography and environmental land-use paradigms are currently influencing policy and planning. We explore the historical evolution of both land-use paradigms and consider how they are currently competing in the formulation and execution of land-use policy decisions. We consider how these distinct priorities are playing out in current discourse and policy implementation, and characterize the past, current and prospective future physical outcomes of policies on the landscape. Our goal is to alert policy makers and land-use scholars of the subtle and contradictory influence of political-demographic land-use priorities with regard to their potential impact on the successful implementation of environmental policies. The Israeli case study is indicative of a diversity of countries that have a history of political-demographic land-use policies, but have also begun to adopt environmentally motivated policies.

Representing Place in Corrozet's Antiquitez de Paris

This article investigates how the French Renaissance guidebook creates a legible sense of place. In part a response to the developing marketplace for printed texts in the capital, the genre was developed by Gilles Corrozet between 1530 and 1550. A hybrid text, part urban history, part folkloric national memoir, the guidebook narrates the history of the city through an examination of its antiquities and origin stories. For Corrozet, place was a means to understand and negotiate relations between history, the self and space at an historical moment when the book, like the map, functioned as a material signifier for the exploration and the representation of the self and the world. While Corrozet's guidebooks locate the experience of given places within an historical trajectory, the portability of these books, produced mostly in handheld format, reveals another of the guidebook's functions as it traces a traveller's itinerary, a journey that provides the book's spatial plan. As a portable 'lieu de memoire', it guides the reader to experience place and landscape as a continuum between the book and its object, and also participates in a larger historical and political demography by aligning writings on cities with an emerging politics of centralization.

Saving the Next Generation: Political Capacity and Infant Mortality Decline in India's States

National political development and its effect on economic and demographic changes are topics extensively addressed by power transition theory. Studies in political demography demonstrate that the political capacity of national governments plays a critical role in altering mortality and fertility patterns in developing nations. We test the effects of political capacity on infant mortality rates in fifteen Indian states in the period 1981 to 2000. We find that the political capacity of a state government lowers infant mortality in the low and middle income states. This effect gets weaker across higher income levels. We also find that the wealthier states tend to be healthier. Female education exerts a negative effect on infant mortality within urban populations but its effects diminish in rural populations. A key implication of our study is that the politically capable states in India are positioned to complete the demographic transition and are likely to emerge as the regional drivers of economic growth. Sustained gains in economic productivity will eventually determine India's role in world politics in the twenty-first century.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this articles:Vincanne Adams and Stacy Leigh Pigg, editors Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global PerspectiveRuth Levine and the What Works Working Group of the Center for Global Development Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global HealthOnn Winckler Arab Political Demography, Volume One: Population Growth and Natalist Policies

Arab political demography: v. 1: Population growth and natalist policies

Arab political demography: v. 1: Population growth and natalist policies

The Changing Discourse on Population and Development: Toward a New Political Demography

The United Nations (UN) Millennium Project is an independent advisory body commissioned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to advise the United Nations on strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)–the set of internationally agreed-upon targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women by 2015. The Millennium Project presented its findings to the Secretary General in January of 2005 in a report entitled Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The report is expected to play a central role in the high-level Summit of the UN General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals in September 2005. The March 2005 issue of Studies included a commentary by Barbara Crossette that addressed the question of why the Millennium Development Goals do not include a reproductive health goal. In this special section, six scholars and policymakers in the fields of population and reproductive health reflect on the context, scope, and significance of the treatment of reproductive health and rights within the Millennium Development Goals. The opening commentary from Stan Bernstein, a participant in the UN Millennium Project, provides historical context. In the four alphabetically arranged essays that follow, Alaka Malwade Basu, Mahmoud Fathalla, Adrienne Germain and Ruth Dixon-Mueller, and Steven W. Sinding offer critical analyses of the MDG-reproductive health nexus. Included after the commentaries are three excerpts from the full report of the Millennium Project and a chapter from a Millennium Project Task Force report calling for the guarantee of sexual and reproductive health and rights. All of the Millennium Project documents can be found at 〈http://www.unmillenniumproject.org〉.

Latino Americans and political participation: a reference handbook

An examination by distinguished Latino/a scholars of the increasing influence of 37 million Latino/a Americans on U.S. electoral and social movements. Latino Americans and Political Participation examines Latino/a American political behavior, covering both electoral and other political issues. The essays provide thorough accounts of the relevant people, places, and events and provide a broad overview of Latino/a political participation in the United States. The information is accessible to individuals new to the topic, but there is extensive coverage to satisfy experienced researchers as well. The volume is rich with case studies and contains information on important political figures, key political events, and a guide to supplementary literature and resources. Contributors include prominent Latino/a scholars who provide a thorough review of the academic literature on such subjects as political demography, protest politics, interest groups, social movement participation, and political representation in national, state, local, and community-level politics. Chronology of key events in Latino/a political history, a multicultural bibliography, and lists of key players in Latino/a American political movements Tables and charts showing the numerical impact of Latino/as, and a selection of Internet databases and websites for further exploration

Think tanks, public policy, and the politics of expertise

List of tables List of figures Acknowledgements 1. The political demography of think tanks 2. The evolution of think tanks 3. Political credibility 4. The policy roles of experts 5. Policy influence: making research matter 6. Think tanks, experts and American politics Appendix A: details on the characteristics, perception and visibility of think tanks Appendix B: list of in-depth interviews Works cited Index.

Political Demography, Demographic Engineering

Political Demography, Demographic Engineering

Political demography of Korea: Political effects of changes in population composition and distribution

Political demography of Korea: Political effects of changes in population composition and distribution

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article:J. C. Waterlow, D. G. Armstrong, Leslie Fowden, and Ralph Riley (eds.), Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People: A Challenge to ScienceDaniel Callahan, False Hopes: Why America's Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for FailureAlain Bideau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Héctor Pérez Brignoli (eds.), Infant and Child Mortality in the PastNoël Bonneuil, Transformation of the French Demographic Landscape, 1806–1906J. Clarke and D. Noin (eds.), Population and Environment in Arid RegionsGad G. Gilbar, Population Dilemmas in the Middle East: Essays in Political Demography and EconomyJames L. Newman, The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation

Local Educational Governance, Accountability, and Democracy in the United Kingdom

This article reports an investigation into the links between local educational government, accountability, and democracy. Four case studies of local education authorities (LEAs) were designed to show how the LEAs were interpreting and responding to the accountability policy framework put in place by the 1988, 1992, and 1993 Education Acts. Qualitative methods were used to gather data from a range of stakeholders in settings broadly representative of political ideologies, size, location, demography, and history. Critical policy analysis was then used to identify the impact and effects of these policies in the LEAs and the broader social and societal consequences. Three emergent models of accountability enactments were found. There was considerable potential found in the current situation of cultural transformation for a politics of accountability at a local level to achieve more reciprocal relationships and communitarian forms of accountability.

Population dilemmas in the Middle East: essays in political demography and economy

Journal of Palestine Studies - With thirty-two tables and figures, this book is replete with useful statistics ... Progress in Human Geography - The books strongest point is that it provides a complex picture of the factors that shape success and failure of population control policies.

Coping with change: issues facing British and German university libraries in the 1990s

Reports the issue discussed in 23 qualitative interviews conducted at a random sample of UK and German university libraries. Changes in the political culture, society and demography of both countries was reported in an earlier paper ( JOLIS,26, (2), June 1994, 83-92 (LISA ref. 9408895) and are not repeated here. Issues discussed include: German reunification; impact of economic recession on university funding; influence of the higher education environment; effect of university modularization and semesterization on libraries; questions of quality control and university ranking; rapid growth of information technology (IT) in all areas of academic life and its impact on libraries; online access to external data-bases (including the Internet); and the perceived presence of competition in a quasi educational market. In the UK, the fundamental changes in the higher education system have led to a substantial increase in demand on university libraries but without increases in finance. Similarly, in Germany the most prominent issues have been the massive increase in student numbers and the changes in IT, networking and automation. In Germany, the most fundamental change has been reunification with its enormous financial implications and societal changes. Points to the convergence of Germany’s mass higher education system and the UK’s elite education system and the consequent effect on libraries.

Planned bedouin settlement in Israel: the reply

There has been a recent proliferation of national land-use policies that emphasize protecting open space and ecosystem integrity. However, countries grappling with internal political conflict, or that are engaged in military conflicts with neighboring countries, have priorities that focus on control of land in areas where state sovereignty is perceived to be threatened. These two concerns, political-demographic control and environmental protection, create very different paradigms for how to think about open space policy. The objective of this paper is to consider the impact of competing paradigms in land-use policy formulation and implementation—one that encourages sprawl and the other that encourages compact development and the preservation of open space. We use Israel as a case study where both political demography and environmental land-use paradigms are currently influencing policy and planning. We explore the historical evolution of both land-use paradigms and consider how they are currently competing in the formulation and execution of land-use policy decisions. We consider how these distinct priorities are playing out in current discourse and policy implementation, and characterize the past, current and prospective future physical outcomes of policies on the landscape. Our goal is to alert policy makers and land-use scholars of the subtle and contradictory influence of political-demographic land-use priorities with regard to their potential impact on the successful implementation of environmental policies. The Israeli case study is indicative of a diversity of countries that have a history of political-demographic land-use policies, but have also begun to adopt environmentally motivated policies.

The Political Demography of Assam's Anti-Immigrant Movement

The political implications of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh to Assam India are considered. The author notes that Assamese middle classes feared the loss of political control when the central government called for elections after there was a marked increase in the number of migrants on the electoral rolls while Assamese and tribal cultivators reacted against land encroachments. The ensuing violent conflict is the most recent in a series of confrontations between Assamese and a succession of migrant groups that have entered the state since the early part of the nineteenth century. The interrelationship of political and demographic factors in the governance of the state is emphasized. (summary in FRE SPA) (EXCERPT)

SOUTHERN CONGRESSIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS VOTING AND THE NEW SOUTHERN POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHY

Southeastern Political ReviewVolume 11, Issue 1 p. 69-90 SOUTHERN CONGRESSIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS VOTING AND THE NEW SOUTHERN POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHY Mark Stern, Mark SternSearch for more papers by this author Mark Stern, Mark SternSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1983 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.1983.tb00653.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume11, Issue1March 1983Pages 69-90 RelatedInformation