Evolution politique et baisse de la fécondité en Occident
Bolton Craig and Leasure J. William. ? Political Evolution and the Fall-off in Fertility in the West. None of the reasons usually put forward to account for the fall in fertility during the last two centuries has been properly tested empirically. Now, a political explanation becomes possible : democracy has led to an alteration of the attitude of the mass of the population which used to be submissive. Individuals have now acquired greater responsibility and have begun to make individual decisions about the size of the family they desired. Contraception was then able to spread. An examination of the political history of European countries shows that the beginnings of fertility decline have always coincided with important political changes.
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1979
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Authors: | Leasure, J. William ; Bolton, Craig |
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Population (french edition). - Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED). - Vol. 34.1979, 04-mai, p. 825-843
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Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) |
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