| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Puzzle of Low Youth Turnout -- 1.1 The Problem: Low Youth Turnout -- 1.2 Why Low Youth Turnout Matters -- 1.3 The Puzzle: It's Not for Lack of Political Motivation -- 1.4 Considering Follow-Through The Role of Noncognitive Skills -- 1.5 Theoretical and Policy Implications -- 1.6 Overview of the Book -- Part I Noncognitive Skills and Youth Turnout -- 2 Rethinking What Makes Voters -- 2.1 Classic Theories of Voter Turnout -- 2.2 The Resource Model |
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2.3 Revising the Classic Theories -- 2.3.1 Revisiting the Costs of Voting -- 2.4 Noncognitive Skills and Voting: Promoting Follow-Through -- 2.5 Building on Previous Literature -- 2.6 The Challenge of Evaluating the Role of Noncognitive Skills -- 3 What Are Noncognitive Skills? -- 3.1 Defining Noncognitive Skills -- 3.1.1 The Malleability of Noncognitive Skills -- 3.2 Operationalizing Noncognitive Skills -- 3.2.1 Data about Noncognitive Skills -- 3.3 What Noncognitive Skills Are Not -- 3.3.1 Comparison to Cognitive Ability and Socioeconomic Status -- 3.3.2 Comparison to Personality |
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3.4 Measuring and Testing the Effect of Noncognitive Skills -- 3.5 The Big Picture -- 4 Evidence Noncognitive Skills Increase Voting -- 4.1 Methodological Approach -- 4.1.1 Observational Methods -- 4.2 Observational Results -- 4.2.1 Results from All Available Data Sources -- 4.2.2 Robustness Checks -- 4.3 Exploring the Mechanisms -- 4.3.1 Heterogenous Effects in the Observational Samples -- 4.4 Experimental Methods -- 4.4.1 Short-Term Activation of Noncognitive Skills -- 4.4.2 Short-Term Activation of NoncognitiveSkills: Findings -- 4.4.3 Long-Term Improvements in Noncognitive Abilities |
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4.4.4 Long-Term Improvements in Noncognitive Abilities: Findings -- 4.4.5 Fast Track's Heterogeneities -- 4.4.6 Fast Track's Potential Mechanisms -- 4.4.7 Evidence from Other Large-Scale Experimental Designs -- 4.5 The Big Picture -- Part II Public Policies and Youth Turnout -- 5 Rethinking Civic Education -- 5.1 Civic Education in the United States -- 5.1.1 The Decline of Civic Education in anAccountability Era -- 5.2 Are Facts and Knowledge Enough? -- 5.3 Assessing Civic Education Effects -- 5.4 Empirical Results -- 5.5 Where Does Civics Go from Here? |
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5.6 What Schools Can Do: Rethinking Civic Education -- 5.6.1 What Schools Can Do, #1: Focus on Applied Learning -- 5.6.2 What Schools Can Do, #2: Timing Matters -- 5.6.3 What Schools Can Do, #3: Integrating Civics -- 5.7 The Big Picture -- 6 Promoting Follow-Through by Reducing the Cost of Voting -- 6.1 Why Explore the Effect of Electoral Rules on Youth Turnout -- 6.2 Data and Methods for This Chapter -- 6.2.1 Methodological Approach -- 6.3 Results: The Effect of Electoral Rules on Youth Voting -- 6.3.1 Why Do Some Electoral Reforms Work, but Others Fall Short? |
| Summary |
"In Making Young Voters, we provide a new framework for understanding voter turnout. Our perspective focuses on the gap between turnout intentions and turnout behaviour. While many young people want to vote and intend to do so, few follow through on these intentions because of the obstacles, distractions, and diversions that get in the way. We combine theory from diverse academic fields - including psychology, economics, education, and child development - and multiple data sources and methods to demonstrate the importance of noncognitive skills - competencies related to self-regulation, effortfulness, and interpersonal skills - for voting. Our perspective challenges existing theories of voter turnout and offers new insights for policy solutions to increase youth turnout. In light of our findings, we offer recommendations for civic education reforms and electoral reforms that will be effective at increasing youth turnout. This topic has broad interest across academic fields, policymakers, and youth advocates"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 24, 2020) |
| Subject |
Youth -- Political activity -- United States
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Political participation -- United States
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Political participation
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Youth -- Political activity
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hillygus, D. Sunshine, author
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| LC no. |
2019038205 |
| ISBN |
9781108770446 |
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1108770444 |
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