Overview and Literature Review
Courting the youth vote is one of the primary objectives of political parties in any representative form of government. The youth vote ensures a party's or representative's future in government, but many representative forms of government struggle with encouraging youth participation in government, particularly when it comes to participation in the voting process. Research shows that people within representative forms of government, particularly within large-scale representative democracies, often face severe alienation from their government and from the voting process as a whole (Blount, 1998). Young people are particularly prone to alienation from the process of civic engagement, and one of the ...
