TY - BOOK AU - Wattenberg,Martin P. TI - Is voting for young people?: with a postscript on citizen engagement T2 - Great questions in politics series SN - 9780205518074 (pbk.) AV - HQ 799.P6 .W35 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Pearson Longman KW - Young adults KW - Political activity KW - Voting age KW - Political participation KW - Political culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The aging of regular newspaper readers -- The aging audience for politics on TV -- Don't ask anyone under 30 -- Where have all the young voters gone? -- Do young adults see voting as a civic duty? -- Does low youth turnout really matter? -- What can be done? -- Postscript : a new civic engagement among young people? N2 - This accessible, provocative, and brief book explores the reasons why the young are less and less likely to follow politics and vote in the United States, as well as in many other established democracies, and suggests ways of changing that UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007001081.html ER -