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  • 11 - Policy and Politics in Disjuncture in an Age of Secular Stagnation

  • from Part III - Polarization, New Cleavages, and Shifts in Democratic Government
  • Edited by Claudia Landwehr, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany, Thomas Saalfeld, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany, Armin Schäfer, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
  • Book:
    Contested Representation
    Published online:
    03 November 2022
    Print publication:
    17 November 2022, pp 187-210

  • Summary

    Across advanced industrial democracies, the financial crisis of 2008 ushered in not just deep economic adjustments but political ones. In many countries, dominant political parties lost voters while new populist parties gained them. Political economists responded to these shifts by asking how the crisis had changed – or failed to change – both what citizens want and politicians’ ability to respond to these wants. But what if the political responses to the crisis reflect not an idiosyncratic shock but instead a much longer term systematic slowdown of advanced economies that has more permanently reshaped the scope for political responsiveness?

  • “We expect seniors to be able to prepare and recover from a cyclone as well as younger members of this community”: Emergency Management’s Expectations of Older Adults Residing in Aging, Remote Hamlets on Australia’s Cyclone-Prone Coastline

  • Sandra Astill, Evonne Miller
  • Journal:
    Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness / Volume 12 / Issue 1 / February 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 July 2017, pp. 14-18
  • Objective

    To investigate the extent to which older residents feel they can remain “self-reliant” during future natural disasters and to compare the findings with the viewpoints of local policy-makers and with those charged with caring for the elderly both on a day-to-day basis and in times of crisis.

    Methods

    This study used an array of non-probability snowballing techniques to seek the participation of senior citizens over the age of 65 years, emergency services officers, community health carers, and local government disaster managers located in aging, remote, coastal Australian communities vulnerable to cyclones and storm surges. All respondents participated in either a face-to-face personal interview or a focus group, with senior citizens also completing a self-administered questionnaire.

    Results

    This research found a discrepancy between policy expectations and the experiences of both the elderly and those who care for them, as well as a lack of understanding with regard to the term “self-reliant.”

    Conclusions

    These results highlight the inability of older adults in aging, remote, coastal Australian communities to remain “self-reliant” in the future, impacting both disaster management policies and the future capacity of these communities to remain resilient. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:14–18)