10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREY VOTE»
Discover the use of
grey vote in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
grey vote and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Going
Grey: The Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society
26.5 27.8 30.8 In terms of voters aged 55 and over, we also see steady and
significant changes in the size of the wider grey vote. At the 2005 election the
grey vote (all voters aged 55+) was estimated as being 42.6 per cent of turnout.
On this ...
2
How Australia Decides: Election Reporting and the Media
Box 9.1 Putting policies in strategic terms: how the news media reported the
Coalition's pension policy in 2007 A '$4 billion pitch for the grey vote' (ABC 7 pm
News, 23 October). A 'pitch for the grey vote' (Channel Nine 4.30 pm News, ...
3
The Imaginary Time Bomb: Why an Ageing Population is Not a ...
The obsession with the 'grey vote' also reflects a sense of resignation to the scale
of political disengagement, and the consequent desire to court the people still
most likely to vote. With surveys and the outcome of recent elections all showing
...
4
Longevity and Social Change in Australia
In the following section, we note how political parties have preferred to court the '
grey' vote rather than stress the problems of an ageing population. Older people
as voters 'Grey power' and the 'grey vote' are regularly invoked by conservative ...
Allan Borowski, Sol Encel, Elizabeth Ozanne, 2007
5
Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies: ...
The large number of seniors in European electorates gives established parties a
strong motivation to target policies at older voters (Goerres 2009: 72) and the (
erroneous) notion of a powerful dormant 'grey vote' is already established in the ...
Pieter Vanhuysse, Achim Goerres, 2013
6
The Freedom Years: Tactical Tips for the Trailblazer Generation
THE GREY VOTE 'I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to
exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience ...' The
answer to all this is to press all the political buttons available to us. Governments
and ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
6 colloq referring or relating to elderly or retired people • the grey vote. > n (greys)
1 a colour between black and white. 2 grey material or clothes • dressed in grey.
3 dull light. 4 an animal, especially a horse, that is grey or whitish in colour.
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A Young Generation Under Pressure?: The Financial Situation ...
... political formation like pensioners' party, even of a few percent, receives
disproportionate
publicityandcanbetakenasasignalbyestablishedpartiesalreadyhighlysensitisedto
the (largely erroneous) notion of a powerful 'grey vote' (Vincent et al.
Grey vote As populations age, elderly people (who often have grey hair) become
a larger proportion of the total population and so have a bigger influence on
governments by the way they vote. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) The monetary
...
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A First Course in Machine Learning
... −2 −1.5 −1 −0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 FIGURE 7.15: Example of four of the votes –
each MP is displayed as a circle or square depending on how they voted (light
grey vote if they didn't vote). in the latent space. MPs are plotted at their posterior.
Simon Rogers, Mark Girolami, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREY VOTE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
grey vote is used in the context of the following news items.
Pensioners should be paying for their own TV licences
The BBC will now effectively be footing the bill for a government policy designed to bribe the grey vote. It is no different from asking Tesco to ... «HITC, Jul 15»
Labour's next leader must tackle the "Granny problem"
Ed Miliband was defeated by the grey vote, and it will only get bigger as the years go by. Labour needs to up its game. by Adam Swersky ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
Budget 2015: tax promises leave little room to drive a viable …
The Conservatives appealed to the grey vote by promising to increase the state pension by £1,000 over the next five years. By 2020, the state ... «The Conversation UK, Jul 15»
Osborne's opportunity for audacious tax reform
Given the Tories' love of the grey vote, the chancellor will be under pressure to withdraw the threat. He should resist: pension reliefs cost ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
Learning political lessons
Messrs Peters and Craig duelled throughout the election campaign as they tried to attract voters with similar values - the grumpy grey vote. «Otago Daily Times, Jun 15»
Age Action to mobilise 'grey vote'
The head of Age Action has called on the organisation's members to ensure the needs of older people are firmly on the agenda in the next ... «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»
Danish rightwinger Kristian Thulesen Dahl rides high on populist tide
... to anti-foreigner and nationalist sentiment while promising a range of incentives, particularly to the “grey vote”, including improved healthcare ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
This Is Why Labour Actually Lost The Election
Labour may not have lost the middle-class vote, but it certainly lost the grey vote. Pre-election polling by Ipsos Mori, a leading UK research ... «Rocca News, Jun 15»
Labour was defeated in general election because it 'lost the grey …
He said: “Labour may not have lost the middle-class vote, but it certainly lost the grey vote.” The Conservatives were supported by 47 per cent ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
Former Treasury minister attacks Labour over pensions policy
... older and younger voters that was in evidence in 2015,. “Labour may not have lost the middle-class vote, but it certainly lost the grey vote.”. «Fundweb, Jun 15»
