Is Voting for Young People? With a Postscript on Citizen Engagement (Great Questions in Politics Series), 2nd Edition

By Martin P. Wattenberg

Published by Pearson

Published Date: Feb 27, 2007

Description

This accessible, provocative, and brief book explores the reasons why the young are less and less likely to follow politics and vote in the United States, as well as in many other established democracies, and suggests ways of changing that.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Aging of Regular Newspaper Readers

Chapter 2: The Aging Audience for Politics on TV

Chapter 3: Don’t Ask Anyone Under 30

Chapter 4: Where Have All the Young Voters Gone?

Chapter 5: Do Young Adults See Voting as a Civic Duty?

Chapter 6: Does Low Youth Turnout Really Matter?

Chapter 7: What Can Be Done?

Postscript: New Forms of Citizen Engagement

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    Neal Tannahill

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    John T. Rourke
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Purchase Info

ISBN-10: 0-205-51807-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-205-51807-4

Format: Paper

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