CIRCLE and The Monkey Cage Share Research on Youth Engagement

Throughout the fall, CIRCLE collaborated with Monkey Cage, The Washington Post’s political science blog, on a series of posts focused on the civic and political engagement of young people.

Featuring work by top scholars on topics like social media, political discussion, and youth voting, the six posts published as part of the series used the 2016 election as context for a deeper examination of emerging trends and data related to young people’s political participation.

Check out all six posts:

• When young people get involved in online communities, it leads them toward politics –
  Benjamin Bowyer and Joseph Kahne
• What makes young people more excited about politics? Deciding how to spend municipal budgets – Celina Su
• More and more people get their news via social media. Is that good or bad? – Kevin Curry
• Does arguing about politics turn young people off? Surprisingly, no. – Jessica T. Feezell and Jessica L. Jones
• How social media helps young people — especially minorities and the poor — get politically engaged – Matthew D. Luttig and Cathy. J. Cohen
• A politician walks into a joke. Does she get elected? – Amy Bree Becker

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