Uninterested Youth? Young People's Attitudes towards Party Politics in Britain
Uninterested Youth? Young People's Attitudes towards Party Politics in Britain
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没有兴趣的年轻人？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9248.2005.00544.x
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
S. Forrest
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文献类型：
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作者：
Matt Henn;Mark Weinstein;S. Forrest
在2001年和2005年的大选结果之后，当弃权者的人数超过工党选民的人数时，许多注意力都集中在英国民主的状况以及如何激发选民，特别是年轻人。虽然政府正在探索使整个投票过程更容易的方法，但它可能未能解决真实的问题--年轻人似乎觉得政治业务不受欢迎，不相干。本文分析了一项对700多名英国年轻人进行的全国性调查的数据，旨在揭示英国年轻人明显脱离正式政治的核心原因--政治冷漠或政治疏离感。调查结果显示，他们支持民主进程，但对英国政治制度的组织和领导方式持怀疑态度，并被政客和政党拒绝。然而，青年人对政治的取向并不一致，数据表明，他们的观点因社会阶层、教育历史和性别而异。然而，年轻人所居住的国家的种族和地区似乎对政治态度和行为的结构没有什么影响。
Following the outcome of the 2001 and 2005 general elections, when the numbers of abstainers outweighed the numbers of Labour voters on both occasions, much attention has focused upon the state of British democracy and how to enthuse the electorate, especially young people. Whilst the government is exploring ways to make the whole process of voting easier, it may be failing to tackle the real problem – that youth appear to find the business of politics uninviting and irrelevant. This paper examines data derived from a nationwide survey of more than 700 young people in order to shed light on what lies at the heart of young people's apparent disengagement from formal politics in Britain – political apathy or a sense of political alienation. The findings reveal that they support the democratic process, but are sceptical of the way the British political system is organised and led and are turned off by politicians and the political parties. However, there is no uniform youth orientation to politics, and the data indicate that views differ according to social class, educational history and also gender. However both ethnicity and region of the country in which young people live seem to have little influence in structuring political attitudes and behaviour.