| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Active aging policy in Europe
— between path dependency and path departure | | Author(s) | Steven Ney |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 30, no 4, Fall 2005 |
| Pages | pp 325-342 |
| Source | http://www.transactionpub.com |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Employment of older people ; Participation ; Social policy ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Active ageing - the idea that policy encourages and enables people to participate actively in social, political and economic life - is a political backwater in Europe. Since demographic ageing affects different policy domains in different ways, the institutional landscapes in which ageing and active ageing policy takes place are fragmented. This means that two distinct and countervailing institutional settings shape active ageing policy agendas. The first institutional setting, national welfare states, concentrates social policy-making at the national level by emphasising institutional path dependency. Conversely, the other institutional context, which consists of service-oriented policy communities at sub-national level, emphasises differences between policy domains across national borders. While the former institutional dynamic precludes all but the most general role of European institutions in active ageing policy, the second institutional setting would allow the considerable European policy co-ordination and co-operation. This paper shows how these opposing institutional landscapes shape active ageing agendas in Europe, as well as points to opportunities and dangers that emerge from this interaction. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070503240 A |
| Classmark | BG: CC: GC: TMB: TM2: 74 |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|