Toxic Demography: Ideology and the Politics of Population

Author/Contributor(s):	Sciubba, Jennifer D
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	11/19/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Population politics has taken many forms throughout history. In Toxic Demography, Jennifer D. Sciubba, Michael S. Teitelbaum, and Jay Winter explore the deep entanglement of population dynamics with identity, modernization, nationalism, and populism. Focusing on the United States, Europe, and Asia, the authors examine the demographic dimensions of political conflict and the societal changes driven by aging populations and decreasing fertility rates. These regions, at the forefront of unprecedented demographic transitions, reveal how population trends have been co-opted to serve political agendas that transform population debates into battlegrounds for broader ideological struggles.