The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts

by Henry Milner

Despite rising levels of education and mounting calls for increased democratic participation, recent years have seen a significant decline in voter turnout in many countries and the erosion of the sense of civic duty that brought earlier generations to the polls. Henry Milner looks at the United States, Canada, Britain, Scandinavia, and the European Union to probe the decline of youth voting and attentiveness to politics, drawing lessons from observations of institutions, which could break down the wall between political life and "real" life that underlies political abstention among the Internet generation. Finding civic education the key to instilling habits of attentiveness to public affairs, especially among potential political dropouts, Milner sets out a series of ways to bring the issues--and the political parties' stance on them--to the classroom, including visits, simulations, and innovative use of media, old and new.

Genres: Politics

294 pages, Paperback

First published June 8, 2010

About the author

HENRY MILNER Political Scientist affiliated with Laval University in Canada and the University of Umea, Sweden

See also: Harry Milner Wodson

Reviews

[Jean-François Lisée · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellente synthèse de la connaissance actuelle sur le déclin du taux de participation aux élections dans le monde. Milner cible les expériences scandinaves visant à renverser ce déclin et nous donne, ainsi, un intéressant mode d'emploi.

Voir l'entrevue qu'il m'a accordée: http://www.cerium.ca/Le-mystere-des-r...