This chapter deals with young people and voting through a substantial amount of data shown in several tables. The chapter presents the contested statistics on electoral participation and shows that the available data is problematic. The chapter then documents how the electoral participation rate for ...
Voters between 18 and 29 are evolving from the self-focus of theirteenyears to a felt sense of the common good. They have reached a stage of development where they believe laws should be changed to meet the needs of the greatest numbers of people. While their voting decisions are often ...
The need to prepare young people in an appropriate way for citizenship has received increased attention across many Latin American countries in recent decades. This young and vibrant subcontinent is undergoing significant societal challenges. The past two decades have seen a resurgence of more ...
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with the age gap in voting much higher in the UK than in other advanced democracies.Daniela F MeloandDaniel Stockemerpresent findings from the UK, Germany and France that show young people are more likely than older people to be engaged in other forms of participation, such as political demon...
Vladimir Zhirinovsky's right-wing nationalist faction, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, is also targeting young people. It has called for lowering the voting age from 18 to 16. Mr Zhirinovsky toured Russia by boat and train last summer talking at institutes about decadent western values ...
voting patterns of young men around the world also highlight their more conservative leanings: In the Polish elections last year, almost half of the men aged 18 to 21 voted for the far-right Confederation Party, and in South Korea, young men largely voted for the right-wing People Power ...
Further, these choices are facilitated by institutional structures that inform the conditions of young people’s lives, for example age of criminal responsibility, compulsory education and voting age (Roberts, 2012, Woodman, 2009). These individual and structural conditions of youth, inform how they ...
In the four years since President Barack Obama swept into office in large part with the support of a vast army of young people, a new corps of men and women have come of voting age with views shaped largely by therecession. And unlike their counterparts in the millennial generation who sho...
Choices in work and paradigms are what exercise our freedoms and voting rights. Achieving one’s identity can involve risky and explorative behavior. To find their unique identity, young people must break the shell of their childhood and test their parents’ values. Exploring their desires to ...