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Do you think that there is a Second Demographic Transition taking place? Substantiate.

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  • Population Geography

Yes — but as a genuine regime change in north-western Europe and its cultural extensions, not as a universal successor stage. The Second Demographic Transition, named by Ron Lesthaeghe and Dirk van de Kaa (1986) and popularised in van de Kaa’s Europe’s Second Demographic Transition (1987), describes a post-transitional order in which fertility settles permanently…

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  • What the Theory Actually Claims
  • The Evidence For: Behaviour Has Moved Exactly as Predicted
  • North-western Europe, the Theory’s Home Ground
  • Diffusion Beyond the Core
  • The Evidence Against: The Causal Link Breaks in East Asia
  • The Theoretical Critiques
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