Good news: young people are politically active. Bad news: they’re not all turning up to elections.
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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 and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Deputy Director at CIRCLE, Tufts University
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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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Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Education, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
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Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Research Associate, Democratic Audit, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, King's College London
