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Authors Matt Henn and Nick Foard, Nottingham Trent University
Published by Journal of Youth Studies, Issue 3, 2014
SUMMARY
With a general election set for next year, youth engagement in politics is poised to come under the spotlight once again. Researchers Matt Henn and Nick Foard, from Nottingham Trent University, wanted to investigate young people's level of interest in and understanding of politics and elections, youth attitudes to the political processes and democratic institutions in the UK, and the degree of faith that young people have in politics. They particularly wanted to find out whether young people's background and life circumstances, including gender, ethnicity, social class and education, have an impact on their political engagement. This differentiation has often been neglected by previous research which tends to treat young people as a homogenous - and politically apathetic - group.
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