
Portuguese Abstract: O envelhecimento da populacao atraves da maioria dos estados avancados de bem-estar levou a uma renovada consciencia popular sobre a nocao de justica entre as geracoes, e tambem tem provocado um interesse academico renovado. No entanto, os esforcos para medir a justica intergeracional empiricamente permaneceram, em sua maioria, retardatarios. Como podemos melhorar as politicas, se nao sabemos qual e o estado desses esforcos, em termos da justica intergeracional na pratica? A pedido da Fundacao Bertelsmann, na Alemanha, desenvolvi um indicador simples instantâneo (snapshot) de quatro dimensoes, a fim de otimizar o conjunto de ferramentas cognitivas dos academicos, jornalistas e politicos. Este estudo informa sobre o Indice de Justica Intergeracional (IJI) e sobre o desempenho dos Estados membros da UE ao longo destas quatro dimensoes. English Abstract: This paper summarizes European findings from the Bertelsmann Stiftung report 'Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies' (Vanhuysse, 2013). Sustainability is the moral starting point for developing this four-dimensional snapshot index of intergenerational justice: 'enough and as good' ought to be left by each generation to the next. I discuss empirical findings on ecological footprints and debt per child and relative child poverty levels, and show that EU member states occupied 8 of the 9 highest positions on the pro-elderly bias of social spending. Poland was in pole position as the most pro-elderly biased European welfare state, followed by Southern and Eastern European countries, and Austria. I argue that adverse labor market, lifestyle and social policy cultures in the past two decades, combined with fast population aging in the next two decades, add up to a bleak 'generational politics' picture for Central and Eastern Europe. I briefly discuss policy options for boosting intergenerational equity, ranging from the obvious (early childhood investment) to the radical (proxy votes for children).
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