In the concluding chapter, the editors elaborate on the relationship between life course and integration research by specifying the theoretical implications of the former: most importantly, the study of integration as a process rather than a state, the consideration of agency as well as structural conditions, and the investigation of generational change and changes over time.
Canada's Justin Trudeau, France's Emmanuel Macron, and 31-year-old Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz "crystallized the desire for change by connecting it to the look of generational change," Friedman wrote in October.
Further differences are apparent: the Western origin of Japan's constitution, the conflicting international environment in Japan, the late regime change, differences in education and, most importantly, the impacts of generational change in Germany.
"In my experience as an archivist," Mr. Loughney said, "in that period of generational change, you may find a second generation that has no sense of what should be done with the materials collected by the first generation".
Handsome, regarded as modest and serious-minded, he is popular and has long been offered by party strategists as a symbol of generational change — even though he is now almost a generation older than the young voters he is supposed to attract.
This was partly a matter of generational change.
Also, it set up Clinton's theme of generational change.
But his lineage made him a sensation, and Congress has offered him as a symbol of generational change.
But neither the advent of the Democratic Party of Japan nor the prospect of generational change promises anything much different.
An agent of generational change must explain the past, diagnose the present, paint the future and embody renewed confidence.
