Recent initiatives to partially privatize and individualize social policies directed toward older people are the product of a particular set of social, economic, and political developments. Today's improved aggregate well‐being of the old, resulting to a significant degree from public policies enacted on their behalf, is encountering a conservatizing ethos fueled in large part by the very success of past policy. The current public debate around old age is best understood as the conflict between the recently attained institutional standing of the old and the reemergent political ideology of the right.
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