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The extent to which new governments appoint and dismiss senior public servants is widely claimed to be influenced by their country's underlying administrative tradition. This is particularly the case within the Westminster tradition where such turnover is limited in nature, with most appointees coming from within the ranks of the public service. This article challenges the assertion that turnover in the Westminster tradition is homogeneously internal. Theorizing that new governments appoint senior public servants to increase their control over the bureaucracy, and that the desire for control is negatively correlated to trust, this article develops hypotheses between the trust new governments harbour towards the bureaucracy and whether they appoint and dismiss bureaucrats from within or outside the public service. The hypotheses are tested with longitudinal data measuring internal and external appointments and departures to the senior public service in Canada's provincial governments over a period of 18 years. The results from various multinomial regression models suggest that political appointments to the public service are not as homogenous as frequently suggested. Although a transition in the governing party and a newly elected premier from the same party of the previous government both lead to an increase in bureaucratic turnover, a newly elected first minister has a greater incidence of internal turnover than a change in party, meanwhile the level of external turnover does not meaningfully differ between these two political events.

Introduction: Multiple perspectives on diverse aging experiences / Anne-Marie Séguin, Véronique Billette, and Patrik Marier -- Muths and realities about seniors / Ignace Olazabal and Julien Simard -- Living on easy street?: the myth of the affluent senior / Patrik Marier, Yves Carrièr, and Jonathan Purenne -- Older adults: allergic to social change? / Julien Simard and Ignace Olazabal -- "That's surprising, at your age!": the myth of digital disinterest / Kim Sawchuk, Line Grenier, and Constance Lafontaine -- Grey-haired neurons: does an accurate memory have to become a memento of younger days? / Maxime Lussier, Manon Parisien, Nathalie Bier, and Sophie Laforest -- Do most very old Quebecers live in residential long-term care centres? / Anne-Marie Séguin, Isabelle van Pevenage, and Chloé Dauphinais -- Age-friendly cities: a panacea for aging in place? / Meghan Joy, Patrik Marier, and Anne-Marie Séguin -- Seniors and their cars: choice or necessity? / Paula Negron-Poblete and Anne-Marie Séguin -- Challenging the myth of older homelessness as chronic homelessness / Victoria Burns -- Are penitentiaries suitable places for older inmates? / Michel Gagnon and Michel Dunn -- Older adults living with mental health problems: "nothing more can be done with them" / Ginette Aubin and Bernadette Dallaire -- Aging with intellectual and developmental disabilities: the myth of the eternal child / Daniel Dickson -- Older adults are not affected by HIV/AIDS: the origins and consequences of a misconception / Isabelle Wallach -- Aging, sexuality, and the "cougar" myth / Milaine Alarie -- Sexual assault of older women: an unthinkable reality / Mélanie Couture, Milaine Alarie, Sarita Israel, and Marie-Pier Petit -- Are older adults safe from conjugal violence? / Sarita Israel, Mélanie Couture, and Marie-Pier Petit -- Living longer: years of retirement or years of work? / Yves Carriére, Patrik Marier, Jonathan Purenne, and Diane Galarneau -- Older workers: a societal problem? / Marie-Michèle Lord and Pierre-Yves Therriault -- Do older adults have all the time in the world? / Isabel Wiebe, Anne-Marie Séguin, Philippe Apparicio, and Véronique Billette -- Can one enjoy a happy retirement without volunteering? / Julie Castonguay, Julie Foriter, Andrée Sévigny, Hélène Carbonneau, and Marie Beaulieu -- The social participation of older people: get on board, as they used to say! / Émilie Raymond, Julie Castonguay, Mireille Fortier, and Andrée Sévigny -- How older adults experience bereavement: does greater frequency make death easier to bear? / Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin, Isabelle van Pevenage, Jeanne Lachance, Rock-André Blondin, and Antonin Marquis -- Palliative care for those dying of "old age": unmet needs / Isabelle van Pevenage, Patrick Durivage, Véronique Billette, Patricia Friesen, and Eleonora Bogdanova -- Do older adults wish to die at home (and can they)? / Isabelle van Pevenage, Patrick Durivage, Anne-Marie Séguin, and Laurence Hamel-Roy -- Are families abandoning older relatives? / Isabelle van Pevenage, Zelda Freitas, Patrik Marier, and Pam Orzeck -- Multiple autonomies: navigating the world of home care services / Norma Gilbert, Annette Leibing, and Patrik Marier -- LGBT older adults: who is there to support them and care for them as they age? / Julie Beauchamp, Shari Brotman, Line Chamberland, and Ilyan Ferrer -- Care provision to older immigrants by their families: when discrimination creates barriers to services / Ilyan Ferrer and Shari Brotman -- Conclusion: Public policy issues and the complexities of aging / Patrik Marier, Anne-Marie Séguin, and Véronique Billette.

AbstractThe concept of autonomy is essential in the practice and study of gerontology and in long-term care policies. For older adults with expanding care needs, scores from tightly specified assessment instruments, which aim to measure the autonomy of service users, usually determine access to social services. These instruments emphasise functional independence in the performance of activities of daily living. In an effort to broaden the understanding of autonomy into needs assessment practice, the province of Québec (Canada) added social and relational elements into the assessment tool. In the wake of these changes, this article studies the interaction between the use of assessment instruments and the extent to which they alter how older adults define their autonomy as service users. This matters since the conceptualisation of autonomy shapes the formulation of long-term care policy problems, influencing both the demand and supply of services and the types of services that ought to be prioritised by governments. Relying on focus groups, this study shows that the functional autonomy frame dominates problem definitions, while social/relational framings are marginal. This reflects the more authoritative weight of functional autonomy within the assessment tool and contributes to the biomedicalisation of aging.

AbstractIn this article, we study how political parties located on the right of the political spectrum adapt to changing electoral and political constraints. Drawing on the concept of policy feedback, we turn to the politics of social policy in the province of Quebec to show that the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), a right-wing party, embraced a more centrist strategy than the preferences of its electoral base would suggest. The CAQ has rejected the austerity policies associated with the previous government and has favoured social policy expansion rather than tax cuts or a quicker return to balanced budgets. We then explore the reasons for this move toward the centre. Our evidence suggests that self-reinforcing feedback effects from existing policies shape public opinion and electoral strategies, which contribute to moderating the actions of this right-wing governing party.

Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market structures and social provisions. This timely volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand the causes and effects of population ageing. The lifecourse perspective suggests that individuals' experiences at an early age can influence their decisions and behaviour at a later age. This much-needed volume combines insights from different disciplines and real-life experiences to describe the theories and practices behind this idea. It therefore caters to the needs of scholars, practitioners and policy makers in a range of areas including sociology and political science