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.
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