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It’s not that youth don’t care enough to vote. It’s that they are turning away from conventional, formal participation in favour of alternative ways of sharing and expressing their views.
While Gen Z and Millennials combined are the biggest voting bloc in Australia, their votes show a quiet divergence between the two generations.
The prime minister has spent much of the unofficial election campaign doing podcast interviews and finding resulting TikTok virality, but will it create a lasting impression?
Everyone is more likely to cast a ballot when voting is convenient, data from Florida’s early on-campus poll site shows.
In 1970, Canadian MPs used the act of lowering the federal voting age as a tool to prevent further youth protests and unrest. No such catalyst exists today amid calls to lower the voting age to 16.
Voter turnout among young people is historically low in the United States. And there is indication that a relatively small percentage of young voters could cast their ballot in November.
While Kamala Harris’s ‘brat summer’ and its TikTok enthusiasts seemingly took flight overnight, the real question is whether young voters show up to cast their ballots in November.
In democracies around the world, voters aged 18-34 are abandoning the incumbent in favour of opposition parties, often choosing populist-style politicians. Why? Blame the broken social contract.
The votes-at-16 story reveals a lot about how people actually consume politics.
Millions of new voters have entered the electorate – but will they cast their vote?
While young voters say they would be more likely to vote for Biden after they learn more about the economy and other topics, they did not appear affected by Donald Trump’s norm-defying behavior.
In a time of growing partisanship and general political uncertainty, a short research project provides a snapshot of the young people who might one day walk the halls of power.
If we don’t support youth’s struggle for democracy, there’s little chance of a peaceful, secure, sustainably developed and environmentally friendly future.
About 27% of 18- to 29-year-olds voted in the midterms, marking the second-highest voter turnout in midterms in 30 years.
The U.S. midterms revealed a generational shift away from youth voter apathy. The apathetic, in fact, seem to be those trying to accurately measure public opinion using outdated methods.
At a time when democratic norms appear to be in decline around the world, deliberative democracy is one potential remedy worth pursuing.
Pierre Poilievre’s momentum among young Canadians, if maintained, could bring the Conservative Party of Canada a notable electoral advantage in the next election.
As many as 80% of young people want abortion to be legal, and most disagree with the Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs v. Jackson ruling. This could lead to high youth voting rates in the 2022 midterms.
Too often, young people’s voices are sought in tokenistic or symbolic ways. Can Labor’s new youth engagement model do things differently?
Top contributors
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Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Deputy Director at CIRCLE, Tufts University
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Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
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Honorary lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Education, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) and Senior Vice-President, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
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Research Fellow in Demography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Politics, Adelaide University