Political Age-Group Consciousness of Older People：A Consideration from Generational Comparison

Abstract

The concern on political power of older people has been raised in the progress of aging of the electorate. However, it is not examined enough whether political age-group consciousness of older people closely related with political power of the old-age group is stronger than other generations or not. In this paper, I analyzed political age-group consciousness of older people through the comparison between three generations of young, middle and old using the data of 1,474 people obtained from the mail survey for 4,000 randomly selected adult men and women. As a result, it was revealed that the political age-group consciousness of older generation was lower than young and middle generations. And also it was revealed that gender and socioeconomic status as well as community characteristic does not influence the political age-group consciousness.