Coping with Demographic Change: A Comparative View on Education and Local Government in Germany and Poland [electronic resource] / by Reinhold Sackmann, Walter Bartl, Bernadette Jonda, Katarzyna Kopycka, Christian Rademacher.

1: Introduction -- 2: Demographic Change as a Challenge -- 3: How do Societies Cope with complex Demographic Challenges? A Model -- 4: Data Sets and Methods Used -- 5: Why do Municipalities 'think' in Demographic Terms? Governing by Population Numbers in Germany and Poland -- 6: Coping with Demographic Decline in German and Polish Municipalities -- 7: Expansive Reaction to Demographic Change. The Case of the Polish Educational Sector -- 8: The Demographic Responsiveness of Education Demand and Supply at Different Levels of the Education System -- 9: Personnel Strategies of Public Sector Organisations in Response to a Declining Service Population. A Model and Empirical Evidence -- 10: Demographic Challenges and Mentalities: Models of Reflexivity and Personnel Policy in Germany and Polish Municipalities -- 11: The Consequences of Coping with Demographic Change for Fiscal Capacity of and Unemployment in German Municipalities.