A recent study from the Tisch College of Civil Life at Tufts looks at millennials’ civic engagement – and finds some cause for concern in rural, suburban and urban areas.
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South Africa’s university students have shown that they can have an impact on the political landscape. That’s why it’s so important that they exercise their right to vote.
There’s an argument to be made for giving more power to those who will live longer with the consequences.
The involvement of youth in politics suggests politicians are not tackling issues of concern to young people.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale told Q&A that if there was a vote among people who are under 30 in Australia, there’d possibly be a Greens prime minister. What do the polls say?
Concern about youth electoral enrolment is framed the wrong way. It usually suggests that young people are somehow deficient and that they – and not the political culture – are the problem.
A new study of young Belgians shows the power of a political education.
Young people have the most at stake in the June 23 poll, but they know the least about the EU.
In 2014, voting rates for young people hit record lows. Will things turn around in 2016?
We know that older people are more likely to vote conservative: but is this because of their age, or their generation?
Good news: young people are politically active. Bad news: they’re not all turning up to elections.
Research suggests young people are engaged in politics, they just don’t like the politicians.
Young people could change the outcome in anywhere between 11 and 41 constituencies.
Recent figures suggest nearly one million people – many of them university students – have fallen off the voters’ register over the past year. With a general election looming, this is an alarming statistic…
The case for lowering the voting age to 16 in the UK would appear to have been strengthened by the resonance of young people in the Scottish referendum. But excitement over this issue masks a deeper problem…
In the current political environment, young people are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Typically stereotyped as having an inflated sense of entitlement, uninterested in civic participation…
It has become a truism in the UK that government policy favours older generations because they vote in much larger numbers than young people. This assumption was central to the recent recommendation made…
In 2004, students in the north Indian city of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, started a club called Generation Nowhere. They met to discuss the hopelessness of their position as educated young men from provincial…
From the beginning of the 2013 election campaign, prime minister Kevin Rudd has put young people front and centre. Be it through the use of social media (although no more “selfies” have surfaced of late…
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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