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	Gerontocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by a leaders which are significantly older than most of the adult population.
		Generally the mark of a gerontocracy is the presence of a substantial number of septuagenarian or octogenarian leaders—those younger than this are too young for the label to be appropriate, while those older than this have generally been too few to dominate the leadership in numbers.
		Gerontocracy generally occurs as a phase in the development of an entity, rather than being part of it throughout its existence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerontocracy (649 words)

	Gerontocracy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A gerontocracy is a form of (additional info and facts about oligarchical) oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by a small clique of leaders, in which the oldest hold the most power.
		Opposition to gerontocracy may cause weakening or elimination of this characteristic by instituting things like term limits or (additional info and facts about mandatory retirement age) mandatory retirement ages.
		Once it was established that succession to the church presidency derived from longest tenure in an office held for life, the hierarchy aged markedly, and with the growth of the church the age at which officials were named to the highest bodies continued to rise.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/gerontocracy.htm (503 words)

	Gerontocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which anentity is ruled by a small clique of leaders, in which the oldest hold the most power.
		Generally themark of a gerontocracy is the presence of a substantial number of septuagenarian or octogenarian leaders—thoseyounger than this are too young for the label to be appropriate, while those older than this have generally been too few todominate the leadership in numbers.
		Gerontocracy generally occurs as a phase in the development of an entity, rather than being part of it throughout itsexistence.
	www.therfcc.org /gerontocracy-33218.html (589 words)

	Slingshot!
		"Gerontocracy", or, the ongoing and systemic domination of kids* by those older than them is my focus.
		As I see it, the domination of kids is not just a horror because of the sheer lack of autonomy, respect and dignity that all these unique young human beings experience, it is also an integral part of the greater social system of domination, control and alienation - civilization itself.
		Gerontocracy needs to be right up there with capitalism, the state, patriarchy, and white supremacy as institutions of social control that, as anarchists, we aim to destroy.
	slingshot.tao.ca /displaybi.php?0080014 (992 words)

	Gerontocracy as a tradition and a mirror for the future, by John Hamer
		My purpose is to suggest that experimentation and learning about gerontocracy could be a means of accommodating to the aging population which would appear to be a looming problem for westerners in the twenty-first century.
		Specifically, it seems impossible that westerners, especially Americans, with their stress on public involvement mediated by electronic media and emphasis on the priority of individual rights, could ever be concerned with a seemingly hierarchical rule by old men and women.
		Paradoxical, however, gerontocracies, like the Sidama in the Eastern Horn of Africa, with their emphasis on decentralised decision making and consensual rule, practice far more community participation and rational discourse than the people of nation-states.
	www.sidamaconcern.com /geront.html (3739 words)

	beepSNORT: The Rise of the Composer Gerontocracy and the Collapse of Pluralism
		beepSNORT: The Rise of the Composer Gerontocracy and the Collapse of Pluralism
		The Rise of the Composer Gerontocracy and the Collapse of Pluralism
		I suggest that a gerontocracy is in effect; that the aesthetics of the 50's and 60's are being enforced upon us, almost in a Stalinist sense because of the impotence of our high cultural systems.
	beepsnort.org /archives/000236.html (1129 words)

	Sidama Concern - Editorial Vol.3 No. 3, 1998
		The study on gerontocracy examines how time related, age-based institutions of the Sidama will help frame the basis for the future.
		John Hamer argues that gerontocracy, a government by old people, as it is literally known, can serve positive role.
		It ought to be understood that some may even assume that gerontocracy would entail a tyranny of age disregarding the dynamism of the social mobility and flexibility associated with the process of contemporary learning.
	www.sidamaconcern.com /editorials/ed33.html (614 words)

	Social Ecology and "the man question" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bookchin's impressive history of hierarchy coincides with this key ecofeminist idea in a number of places, despite an assertion that gerontocracy was the earliest social stratification.
		On the other hand, it might be argued that the motive behind formation of a gerontocracy was itself a patriarchal need to secure resources for sexual gratification by less vibrant older males.
		The inequities of capitalism can be seen as a precise transmutation of a dynamic where young people, women, and outsiders, are kept impoverished and powerless by the corporate greed of a few 'big men', usually but not necessarily the over fifty age bracket.
	www.cat.org.au /vof/versions/salleh.htm (5959 words)

	Aging Matters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We are becoming a gerontocracy, a society driven by the needs of those over 50.
		The dynamic this sets up for 20 years from now is ominous: A large population of economically stable white seniors being cared for by a poorer, fewer in number, multi-cultural generation, whose taxes will go to support the Social Security payments to the white minority.
		Further solidifying the gerontocracy is the fact that early Boomers and seniors vote more than other groups and they lean fiscally to the right and socially in the middle.
	www.savannahnow.com /features/aging/part1/force.shtml (1908 words)

	Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This pervasive complex (obviously reminiscent of the military-industrial complex of our own time) is nurtured and maintained by a ruling gerontocracy made up of the aged, who took power at the beginning of the century in the aftermath of plague pandemics.
		In addition, forming a (sometimes weak) plot line is the existence of a mystery to be solved and something hidden which has to be found, but what engages the reader is the fascinating weavework of character and setting through which this thread is followed.
		Mia is member of the gerontocracy which allows only those who act responsibly towards both themselves and society to prolong their lives through extraordinary medical means, and so to enter the realm of the post-human.
	www.rambles.net /sterling_fire.html (591 words)

	Africa: The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: ethnographies of the past and memories of the present. (Reviews ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Africa: The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: ethnographies of the past and memories of the present.
		The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: ethnographies of the past and memories of the present.
		MARIO I. AGUILAR (ed.), The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: ethnographies of the past and memories of the present.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:80852682&refid=ink_tptd_mag (233 words)

	Τμήμα Μηχανικών Η/Υ, Τηλεπικοινωνιών & Δικτύων - Πανεπιστήμιο ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In semj-capitalistic Greece, gerontocracy did not reach in the levels of Soviet Union, but continues maintaining itself.
		On the contrary in a world without borders where neolaj'oj they make fortunes as designers of software of computers they excel as stars of rok sports, it would be difficult is maintained the gerontocracy.
		The modernism of Greek economy has created new occasions for the young persons, molono'tj their parents prompt in established professions as that of public employee.
	www.inf.uth.gr /english/neocracy.htm (942 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This and many other examples one could draw on point to the undeniable fact that is ultimately the root of all of Japan's problems: Japan is a country run by old men, for old men.
		What strikes any reasonably astute observer of the Japanese scene is not only the prevalence of the gerontocracy, but all the pomp and circumstance that attend it.
		Until and unless this rejuvenation occurs, young Japanese men and women must realize that the male gerontocracy is ruining their country and their future.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20020422jl.htm (1191 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Live Long -- and Prosper? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And it certainly doesn't appear that our institutions are controlled by a rigid gerontocracy.
		So if fear of gerontocracy is behind opposition to longer lives, it would be better expressed in terms of opposition to communism than opposition to aging research.)
		But regardless of aesthetics, I think that the fear that longer lives will lead to more rigidity and less creativity is unlikely to come true, at least so long as we continue to embrace democratic capitalism.
	www.techcentralstation.com /061604C.html (957 words)

	Political Feasibility of Pension Reforms
		A reform that aims at reducing the size of unfunded pension systems is supported by the young and opposed by the old.
		As long as the young have the majority, this reform is feasible; as soon as society becomes a gerontocracy, there is risk of further expansion.
		France becomes a gerontocracy in 2014 and Italy as early as 2006.
	www.bepress.com /bejeap/topics/vol4/iss1/art20 (223 words)

	gerontormine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gerontocracy of Ormine- Small interstellar government primarily found in the Akhlare subsector of Dark Nebula.
		The technology to conquer the inhospitable worlds was supplied by the Solomani in exchange for work contracts and pledges of loyalty.
		Thus most of the gerontocracy is deeply in debt to the Solomani and is part of their political sphere.
	members.cox.net /imperiallibrary/g/gerontormine.html (294 words)

	TAP: Vol 12, Iss. 12. Correspondence. . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, she inadvertently misquoted me. Far from regarding America growing older as a "gerontocracy," I see it as a major human achievement.
		After revisiting my notes, I realize I accidentally expressed the idea of a coming gerontocracy as your own unvarnished comment rather than the misguided fear of others.
		Chris Mooney presents a surprisingly well informed and unbiased look at what, for the academic literati, might be called "the Tolkien problem" ["Kicking the Hobbit," June 4, 2001].
	www.prospect.org /print/V12/12/letters.html (1038 words)

	Age and Ageing: Societal Impact on Aging: Historical Perspectives. - book reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is the sixth volume in a series produced by a Committee on the Life Course Perspective of the Social Science Research Council, inspired by the well known American social gerontologist, Martha White Riley.
		It consists of the edited proceedings of a Conference held in 1991 to consider historical developments relating to four main themes affecting older people--namely, labour force participation, institutionalizing, later-life creativity and gerontocracies.
		In each case, with the exception of the last, gerontocracy, the history is that of the USA.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2459/is_n4_v23/ai_15657890 (343 words)

	MedicalPost.com: Birth of 'gerontocracy' began in 1990s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		During the 1990s, the number of people in the 18- to 44-year age group shrank by nine million, while those over the age of 50 welcomed 12 million new members, said Dr. Ken Dychtwald (PhD) in a keynote session during the National Managed Health Care Congress here late last month.
		"We've already become what I call a 'gerontocracy.' The political world is dominated by the needs and interests of seniors," Dr. Dychtwald said.
		Some significant changes are in store for the years ahead, tied to "gerontocracy," he said.
	www.medicalpost.com /mpcontent/article.jsp?content=/content/EXTRACT/RAWART/3821/42A.html (439 words)

	The Last Gerontocracy - Why the anchors are so ancient. By Kurt Andersen
		The Last Gerontocracy - Why the anchors are so ancient.
		That's because the on-air network news establishment, like the Soviet establishment in its final days, has become a gerontocracy.
		In the 1980s, much was made of the fact that the average Politburo member was 67 years old, and that the endgame caretakers like Yuri Andropov (68 when he assumed power) and Konstantin Chernenko (72) were all creaky, decrepit old men.
	www.slate.com /?id=2064171 (1081 words)

	The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Since the studies of Paul Spencer on Samburu, Rendille, and Maasai in Kenya, age as a paradigm for the construction of social knowledge has been widely explored.
		The introduction provides a critique of such paradigms of age and gerontocracy, that is informed by current developments in anthropology, history and African Studies.
		Despite changes over time, the discussion of age in African development and politics is as central as ever.
	academicpublishing.binghamton.edu /bookhtml/0-86543-598-7.html (206 words)

	CTheory.net
		This essay is about the birth of a concept, the hatching of a heuristic idea, a melding of extant perceptions and ideas into conceptual synergism: The emergence of a virtual gerontocracy during the first half of the 21st Century.
		An intolerable event ignites a chain of events that leads to a bloody generational, ethnic and class war, a war with roots in a matrix of social and economic tensions that are already very clearly and currently present.
		It is a possible response to an autocratic gerontocracy, a gerontocracy whose social, economic and political dominance would be tightly linked to the use and control of sophisticated technological ensembles.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=118 (3717 words)

	gerontocracy - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=gerontocracy (168 words)

	SGN - Vorshan Empire - Testing thread (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yunto is young compared to most of scientists in the Gerontocracy however has earnt his title simply due to his skill.
		This station is one of the most secured facilities in the entire Gerontocracy and is where Elders gather to discuss new methods in engineering and sciences.
		The Hyach Gerontocracy are one of the most advanced races in the galaxy, behind the Minbari Federation and equal to the Yolu Confederation.
	www.sgnonline.com /vb3/printthread.php?t=74 (15265 words)

	Industrial Economist - the business magazine from South - Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The paper has lamented that many Indian promoter groups will have to ask their founding patriarchs to sit at home: "corporate leaders like K K Birla, B M Munjal, Keshub Mahindra, Arvind Lalbai and Bharat Ram, who nurtured their groups over decades, will not be able to lend expertise at board meetings.
		Ratan Tata set a healthy practice by ending the rule by the gerontocracy at Bombay House.
		At one stroke, he enforced the rule that no director of the group company will function in the board beyond the age of 75.
	www.indeconomist.com /150603_edit2.html (1623 words)

	Salon Newsreal \| American gerontocracy
		It's clear that both the advantages of incumbency and voters' understandable wishes not to give up the power that a Senator amasses over decades of service has led us to the threshold of gerontocracy.
		When other countries have gerontocracies, we see them as bad.
		China's is seen as a sign of political stagnancy, as was the Soviet Union's.
	archive.salon.com /news/1999/01/15newsc2.html (637 words)

	Stephen Davis: From Gerontocracy To Democracy: The Transition of Aboriginal Society in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From Gerontocracy To Democracy: The Transition of Aboriginal Society in Australia
		This system of gerontocracy, or rule by the old, was highly dependant on a structured system.
		The many tragedies of Aboriginal society today are, to a significant degree, the consequences of numerous, disjointed, uncoordinated, short-sighted structural changes to a nomadic, pre-literate, animistic gerontocracy without any well planned strategy for transition to a sedentary, post-industrial, commercial, democracy.
	www.bennelong.com.au /papers/Conference2001/Davis2001.html (4899 words)

	www.cebr.dk - DP 2001-12 Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged
		DP 2001-12 Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged
		It has been argued that in the absence of altruism, intergenerational transfers can survive only if the old are net recipients.
		Furthermore, establishing public education may benefit only the generation which pays for education twice, first for itself and then for the next generation.
	www.cebr.dk /Publications%20submenu/Discussion%20Papers/2001/DP%202001-12.aspx (107 words)

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