The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives) [Paperback] Milner, Henry

Milner, Professor Of Political Science Henry

ISBN 10: 1584659386 / ISBN 13: 9781584659389

Published by University Press of New England, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives) [Paperback] Milner, Henry
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584659386
• ISBN 13: 9781584659389
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Despite rising levels of education and mounting calls for increased democratic participation, recent years have seen a significant decline in voter turnout in many countries and the erosion of the sense of civic duty that brought earlier generations to the polls.

Henry Milner looks at the United States, Canada, Britain, Scandinavia, and the European Union to probe the decline of youth voting and attentiveness to politics, drawing lessons from observations of institutions, which could break down the wall between political life and "real" life that underlies political abstention among the Internet generation. Finding civic education the key to instilling habits of attentiveness to public affairs, especially among potential political dropouts, Milner sets out a series of ways to bring the issues--and the political parties' stance on them--to the classroom, including visits, simulations, and innovative use of media, old and new.

About the Author

HENRY MILNER is a political scientist at the University of Montreal in Canada and Umea University in Sweden, and co-editor of Inroads, a Canadian journal of policy and opinion.