Voting, Election Interest, and Age
National Findings for English and French Canadians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6239989 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James E Curtis (University of Waterloo), Ronald D Lambert (University of Waterloo) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 293-307 |
| Publication date | 1976-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423900043730 |
| OpenAlex | W2164397752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 17 |
A common finding in cross-sectional survey studies of adult political activity in the US and several other democratic states is a curvilinear or approximate normal curve relationship between age and voting and political interest: young adults are less likely to turn out to vote and be interested in politics, middle-aged persons (in their late forties and early fifties) are more likely to vote and report election interest, and elderly persons are less likely to show involvement on either count (though they are often reported to be as active as young adults). This is a rather widely cited phenomenon in prepositional inventories by political scientists, political sociologists, and social gerontologists. These age relationships have been interpreted as support for the idea that voting activity and interest in elections generally increase from young adulthood through middle age and then decrease for those past middle age, though perhaps not to the level characteristic of very young adults
Age groups · Democracy · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Middle age · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turnout · Voting · Young adult · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2014 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |