IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/scippl/v35y2008i8p575-583.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Ageing or silvering? Political debate about ageing in the Netherlands

Author

Listed:
  • Martijn van der Steen

Abstract

This article explores the role of anticipatory knowledge in institutional change, using Dutch debates about population ageing and their impact on welfare policies as a case study to illustrate its argument. Mapping the debates around ageing in the Netherlands, the article demonstrates that changes in narrative are a powerful force in the policy process. The case study describes the process of argumentation about the future that took place between 2000 and 2006, and reflects upon the use of knowledge about the future that came to be of crucial importance in bringing temporary closure to the controversy over the proper response to the demographic shift. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Suggested Citation

  • Martijn van der Steen, 2008. "Ageing or silvering? Political debate about ageing in the Netherlands," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 35(8), pages 575-583, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:35:y:2008:i:8:p:575-583
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.3152/030234208X370657
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:35:y:2008:i:8:p:575-583. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/spp .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.