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No Longer Spectators : The Future Is In Their Hands -- Jennings Randolph's Obsession : Why One Man Worked For Nearly Thirty Years To Secure The Right To Vote For Eighteen-year-olds -- An Unexpected Coming Of Age : Why So Many Young Americans Voted In 1972, Even When The Outcome Of The Election Was Never In Doubt -- Knock The Vote : Why Young People Don't Vote Today, And Why The Political Establishment Wants It That Way -- The Service Gap : Why So Many Young People Think Community Service Is More Effective Than Voting; Which Is A Shame, Because It Isn't -- Hating Politics Is Cool : Why Young People Know So Little About Government, And Why That Matters -- Virgin Voters : What Will It Take To Get Young People Engaged? Young People Volunteer In Large Numbers, But Many Of Them Don't Vote. Why? In Taking Back The Vote, Respected Journalist And Political Commentator Jane Eisner Analyzes This Decline In Voter Participation And Suggests Concrete Ways Of Reinvigorating The Youth Vote. Eisner Uses The Historic 1972 Legislation That Gave Eighteen-year-olds The Right To Vote As A Starting Point, Then She Traces How And Why Young People Have Slowly Stopped Voting Since That Time. But Eisner Asse

Author

Eisner, Jane

Publisher

Boston: Beacon Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807043431

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Social_sciences