Editors’ Note

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This issue of Statistics, Politics and Policy hosts the second part of our special issue on Political Demography; the first part appeared in issue 4 of 2023.Even though interactions between demographic factors and politics are frequent and powerful, the intersection of political science and population studies has for a long time remained under-researched.Gladly, this is now changinga process we want to support through our two-piece special issue.In the last editor's note we presented a definition of the field that was the basis for the selection of papers submitted to our open call as well as the first two articles: Cincotta (2023) focused on coup vulnerability among youthful countries and Kurz and Ettensperger (2023) presented a novel dataset that enables studies on party-level factors influencing youth representation in parliaments.In this second part of the special issue we present three more articles from the field of political demography, covering a range of different topics.In the first article, Bruno Arpino and Ryohei Mogi analyze how political ideology influences fertility behavior and find that "people that position at the extreme right of the political ideology scale are more likely to intend to have a child" (Arpino and Mogi 2024, p. 1).The second article from our open call on political demography is a novelty in this journal, as it presents a perspective from normative political theory.Christopher-David Preclik builds upon the idea of gerontocratic rule and the concept of adultism, to develop the concept of Political Adultismthe idea that being a legal adult might not automatically lead to being perceived as adult enough in the political sphere.A perspective that gains relevance as societies continue to age.Empirically, the article concentrates on the 2021 German federal elections and Vote16-policies.