Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States

Asgeir Falch-Eriksen is a senior researcher at Department of Health and Welfare Studies at Norwegian Social Research. He has a PhD in political science. His research interests is especially aimed at democratic theory, trust and legitimacy. He is also a lecturer in social work and in rights-based child protection.

This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states.

1. Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States. Part 1. The Politics of Generations. 2. The welfare state and economic redistribution between overlapping generations - normative theories applied to two contemporary debates. 3. The age-profile of European welfare states: a source of intergenerational conflict? 4. Solidarity with Future Generations? - Protection clauses in constitutions. Part 2. Generations Within Families. 5. Thinking through generation: On parenting and belonging among adult children of immigrants in Norway. 6. The Welfare state and family: Intergenerational tensions and solidarity within the housing sector. 7. Will more education work? Economic marginalization and educational inequalities across birth cohorts 1955 - 1980. Part 3. Historical and Ascriptive Generations. 8. The Digital Generation. Representations of a generational digital divide. 9. The Baby-boomer generation: Another breed of elderly people? 10. Social generations in popular culture. 11. Solidarity and Tension Across Generations in Welfare Democracies. 12. Generational Analysis of the Advanced Welfare State.