Political Science Perspectives on Aging Policy: A Six Week Curriculum
Robert B. Hudson, Boston University
Professor and Chair, Social Welfare Policy
I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Aging Policy Development
Benjamin, A.E. 1993. "An Historical Perspective on Home Care Policy," Milbank Quarterly, 71: 129-56.
Derthick, Martha. 1979. Policymaking for Social Security. selected chapters.
Derthick, Martha. 1978. "How Easy Votes on Social Security Came to an End," The Public Interest.
Hudson, Robert B. 1999. "Conflict in Aging Politics:New Population Encounters Old Ideology." Social Service Review, 73(3), 358-379.
Williamson, John and Fred Pampel. 1993. "Theoretical Perspectives on the Welfare State." Chapter 2 in Old Age Security in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.
II. The Aging in Politics
Binstock, Robert H. 2000. Older People and Voting Participation: Past and Future. Gerontologist, 40(1), 18-31.
Peterson, Steven A. and Albert Somit. 1994. "The Political Behavior of the Aged: What We Don't Know and Why." Chapter 2 in The Political Behavior of Older Americans. New York: Garland.
Powell, Lawrence, Kenneth Branco, and John B. Williamson. 1996. "The Incipient Senior Rights Movement: Legitimatizing Pensions in the Public Mind" and "Old Age and the New Right: Resisting Attempts to Delegitimize Social Security." Chapters 3 and 7 in The Senior Rights Movement. New York: Twayne.
Pratt, Henry J. 1993. Introduction. Chapter 1 in Gray Agendas. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
III. The Interaction of Politics and Policy
Binstock, Robert H. 1972. "Interest Group Liberalism and the Politics of Aging," The Gerontologist, 12: 265-280.
Hudson, Robert B. 1998. "Privatizing Old-Age Benefits: Re-Emergent Ideology Encounters Organized Interest." In J.G. Gonyea (ed.), Resecuring Social Security and Medicare: Understanding Privatization and Risk. Washington, DC: Gerontological Society of America.
Pierson, Paul. 1993. "When Effect Becomes Cause: 'Policy Feedback' and Political Change," World Politics: 595-628.
Walker, Jack. 1983. "The Origins and Maintenance of Interest Groups in America," American Political Science Review, 77: 390-406.
IV. The Issue of 'Generational Equity'
Marmor, Theodore, Jerry Mashaw, and Philip Harvey. 1990. "Crisis and the Welfare State." Chapter 3 in America's Misunderstood Welfare State. New York: Basic Books.
Preston, Samuel. 1984. "Children and the Elderly in the U.S.," Scientific American, 251(6): 44-49.
Quadago, Jill. 1989. "Generational Conflict and the Politics of the Welfare State," Politics and Society, 17: 353-376.
Thomson, David. 1989. "The Welfare State and Generation Conflict." In P. Johnson, C. Conrad, and D. Thomson (eds.), Workers and Pensioners. New York: St. Martins.
V. Assessing Policies on Aging
Aaron, Henry. 2000. the Centenarian Boom: Providing for Retirement in a Long-Lived America. The Brookings Review, 18(2) 22-25.
Fraser, Nancy and Linda Gordon. 1992. "Contract versus Charity: Why is There No Social Citizenship in the United States?" Socialist Review, 22: 45-67.
Holden, Karen C. and Timothy M. Smeeding. 1990. "The Poor, the Rich, and the Insecure Elderly Caught in Between," Milbank Quarterly, 68: 383-411.
Hudson, Robert B. 1993. "Social Contingencies, the Aged, and Public Policy," Milbank Quarterly, 71(3): 252-277.
Thompson, Lawrence. 1994. "The Roles of Social Insurance, Tax Expenditures, Mandates, and Means-Testing." In R.B. Friedland, L.M. Ethridge, and B.C. Vladeck (eds.), Social Welfare at the Crossroads. Washington, DC: National Academy of Social Insurance.
VI. The Sectors of Aging Policy: Public and Private; Formal and Informal
Kane, Rosalie. 1995. "Expanding the Home Care Concept: Blurring Distinctions Among Home Care, Institutional Care, and Other Long-Term Care Services," Milbank Quarterly, 73(2): 161-181.
Moon, Marilyn, 1998. "Privatization, Individualization, and Social Insurance." In J.G. Gonyea (ed.), Resecuring Social Security and Medicare: Understanding Privatization and Risk. Washington, DC: Gerontological Society of America.
Salisbury, Dallas. 1998. "What Can Employment Do for Retirement Security: Lessons of History." In J.G. Gonyea (ed.), Resecuring Social Security and Medicare: Understanding Privatization and Risk. Washington, DC: Gerontological Society of America.
Starobin, Paul. 1998 (March 28). "The Daddy State." National Journal, 678-683.
Tennstedt, Sharon, Sybil L. Crawford, and John B. McKinlay. 1993. "Is Family Care on the Decline?" Milbank Quarterly, 71(4): 601-624.
