We want our children to flourish. To ensure that they do, we need to help them develop their sense of good and evil, justice and injustice. Engaging in politics is crucial to this development.
A survey of young voters reveals a lack of engagement in politics.
The default position in social and political theory is to disregard children altogether, or to consider them as learner-citizens.
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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.
Bill Shorten said politicians and government must find ways to re-engage a generation of young people.
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There is a growing canyon now separating politics as understood and practiced by political authorities from the political practices of everyday people.
Under orders to keep watch.
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Participation is commonly viewed as the cornerstone of liberal democracy. In Europe, however, the decades since the 1980s have been marked by falling participation and increased disillusionment with institutional…