Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation

Mark Chou is an Associate Professor of Politics at the Australian Catholic University. Jean-Paul Gagnon is an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Canberra. Catherine Hartung is a Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Otago. Lesley Pruitt is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University.

• 1. Preface. / 2. Disengaged: young people and political disengagement in Anglo-American democracies / 3. Democracy in Crisis: are young people to blame? / 4. Civics Education: defender or divider of democracy? / 5. Different Ways, Different Domains: the everyday politics of young people / 6. Brexit, Bono, and the Entrepreneurial Self: young people’s participation as ‘global citizens’ / 7. Co-Designed: a new approach to civics and citizenship.

[T]his informed and informative study carefully examines the role of civics education in addressing the so-called crisis of democracy. Turning away from conventional suggestions often advocated by politicians and educators that offer civics education as the solution, Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation advances an alternate approach to civics that clearly acknowledges the increasingly diverse ways in which young people are both engaging and disengaging politically. While very highly recommended as a critically important addition to both community and academic library Political Science collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation is also available in a paperback edition and in a Kindle format.