Population - Quarterly No. 80 POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHY

Political demography is a field of demography which has been rarely considered by demographers as a multi-disciplinary research area. Political demography addresses the interaction between demography and policy. Population can be used as a political tool at local, national and international levels. Therefore, governments attempt to adopt programs in order to control demographic factors. After a conceptual definition of political demography, the author has notified related theoretical models and considers selected inevitable methodological challenges of this field. The author emphasizes that limited number of researchers focus on interactions between policy and population, he is delighted to provide an appropriate list of publication. Thereafter, he has tried to address some important questions of political demography briefly. The key questions which are addressed in the paper are as follows: Does population size matter? Does age structure matter? Does population composition matter? and Do demographic interactions between immigration and fertility matter?