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Encouraging young people to vote requires understanding why they don’t

By Christopher Alcantara, Professor of Political Science, Western University
Craig Mutter, Graduate Student, Political Science, Western University
Laura Stephenson, Professor of Political Science, Western University

It’s not that youth don’t care enough to vote. It’s that they are turning away from conventional, formal participation in favour of alternative ways of sharing and expressing their views.

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