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Policy Advice: Definitional Issues
In Anglo-American political science, it is common to distinguish between politics, polity, and policy (in German language, there is no similar distinction). Politics refers to a procedural dimension, i.e., processes of consent formation and conflict resolution that may result in intentional political action as well as “nondecisions.” Policy refers to a contextual dimension, i.e., specific fields of politics and respective tasks, challenges, and aims to be reached by intentional political action. Polity refers to values and institutions as underlying circumstances of policies, e.g., constitution, laws, communities, or administrative units. This entry focuses primarily on the contents of politics, more precisely on the impact of geropsychological knowledge and perspectives on aging policy. Aging policy depends on policy-makers’ – politicians responsible for shaping aging policy – appraisal of the actual...
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Kruse, A., Schmitt, E. (2016). Psychology and Politics. In: Pachana, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_320-1
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