Running from Office : Why Young Americans Are Turned off to Politics.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199397662
- 320.408350973
- HQ799.9.P6 -- .L395 2015eb
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Coming of Age in an Era of Political Dysfunction and Disillusionment -- 2. What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Not a Politician! -- 3. Not Under My Roof: Politics in Contemporary American Families -- 4. #GovernmentSucks: How Young People Experience Contemporary Politics -- 5. I'm Not a Corrupt Liar Only Out for Myself: I Could Never Run for Office -- 6. Inspiring the Next Generation to Run for Office -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Running from Office explores young people's opinions about contemporary politics and their political ambition (or lack of it). The book paints a political profile of the next generation that should sound alarm bells about the long-term, deeply embedded damage contemporary politics has wrought on U.S. democracy and its youngest citizens.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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