Is Voting for Young People?
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Is Voting for Young People?

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Is Voting for Young People?

About this book

Is Voting for Young People? explores the reasons why young people are less likely to follow politics and vote in the United States and other established democracies, no matter who the candidates are, or what the issues may be.

This brief, accessible, and provocative book suggests ways of changing that. Fully updated to include statistics and analysis from the 2020 and 2022 US elections, this book argues that politics and voting have increasingly become the province of the elderly, with a growing rift between politicians and young adults that weakens democracy. Employing a wealth of cross?national data, Martin P. Wattenberg shows how changes in media consumption, neglect from politicians, and changing attitudes towards civic duty have created a generation gap in voter turnout and ceded important decisions on youth concerns to those who have different values and interests.

Illustrating the critical importance of engaging young voters, this book is an important read for students of democracy, political participation, elections, and voter behavior.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. CHAPTER 1 The Aging of Regular Newspaper Readers
  12. CHAPTER 2 The Aging Audience for Politics on TV
  13. CHAPTER 3 Don’t Ask Anyone Under 30
  14. CHAPTER 4 Where Have All the Young Voters Gone?
  15. CHAPTER 5 Do Young Adults See Voting as a Civic Duty?
  16. CHAPTER 6 Does Low Youth Turnout Really Matter?
  17. CHAPTER 7 A New Civic Engagement Among Young People?
  18. CHAPTER 8 Was Voting for Young People in the Obama Era?
  19. CHAPTER 9 Young People and Politics in the Trump Era
  20. CHAPTER 10 What Can Be Done?
  21. Index