SENIOR POWER OR SENIOR PERIL: AGED COMMUNITIES AND AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Book ID/图书代码： 12689014B72269
English Summary/英文概要： As 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 activity.
This path-breaking book identifies the political behaviors, attitudes, and political consciousness of both older and younger residents as it recounts the perceived and actual political power of seniors.
In the series The Social Logic of Politics, edited by Scott McClurg
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 随着出生于婴儿潮时期的人们也逐渐老龄化，年长的市民在总选举人数中所占的比率也即将达到历史最高纪录。这一现象促使布里特尼•布拉姆莱特产生疑问：当年长的市民们逐渐占据了当地人口的主要部分，他们的存在是会更加有利于政治呢，抑或者说他们将更加的虚弱无力？在《老龄力量还是老龄危机》一书中，布拉姆莱特对“全美老龄人口聚居社区数量的不断增加将形成一个不断扩大的老年势力区域群体，并将以牺牲年轻人利益的方式影响老龄人口特殊福利的再分配”这一论断进行了检验。然而另外一群人却认为他们的政治影响力将随着年龄的增长而逐渐衰退。
布拉姆莱特用采访和现场调研的方式研究了各式各样的老年社区，去发现究竟是怎样的特质使得一个老年社区在政治上是独特的，以及当地老年文化对于居民政治理解、安全网政策的态度、效率及政治活跃度的影响。这本开创性的书籍对老年居民和年轻居民们的政治行为习惯、态度及政治觉悟进行了区分辨别，并对现有理解和老龄一倍的实际政治力量进行重新估算。
本书被收入在“政治社会逻辑”系列书籍中，斯科特•马克克拉格编辑。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况："从历史的角度看到这样一部精心编写同时富有深刻思想的书籍实在是令人耳目一新的。我从未见过这般的书籍，实在是文学界一部不可欠缺的好书。" --Joshua Dyck
"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
About the Author/作者介绍： 布里特尼•H•布拉姆莱特现为荣誉博士后，任教于乔治亚大学政治科学院。她曾在宾夕法尼亚州雷丁市的奥尔布赖特学院担任政治科学专业副教授。
Brittany H. Bramlett is currently a Post-Doctoral Honors Teaching Fellow with the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. Previously, she has been an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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