Millennials across the rich world are failing to vote
Millennials across the rich world are failing to vote
- February 4, 2017
- Martin Wattenberg, poli sci, in The Economist, Feb. 4, 2017
According to Martin Wattenberg, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, the gap in turnout between young and old in many places resembles the racial gap in the American South in the early 1960s, when state governments routinely suppressed the black vote.
For the full story, please visit http://www.economist.com/news/international/21716023-democracies-are-risk-if-young-people-continue-shun-ballot-box-millennials-across.
Share on:
Related News Items
- They could decide the 2024 election. If they vote.
- Opinion: 'This is going to be the most important election since 1860'
- Opinion: Trump is unraveling before our eyes, but will it matter?
- UC Irvine political science faculty statement on the events of Jan. 6, 2021
- Hundreds of political scientists call for removing Trump
connect with us