Add to ORKGThis article by Dr Shakuntala Banaji and Sam Mejias, LSE The UK election result which came out on June 9th 2017 was a surprise to even seasoned commentators. Instead of backing a Conservative government with an austerity agenda and a track record of punitive measures against young people and refugees – removal of housing benefits, higher and higher fees, soaring house prices and rents, zero hour contracts – almost half of the British electorate turned instead to the Labour Party with an unashamedly social democratic set of policies in its manifesto. And, given that the UK mainstream media, including rightwing commentators from inside the Labour party, had spent much of the past two years misrepresenting, mocking, belittling, trolling, under...
One thing to emerge both on social media and on the streets after the referendum result was a clear ...
Following the outcome of the 2001 and 2005 General Elections, when the numbers of abstainers outwei...
Over the course of the last decade, policy makers in Britain have become increasingly concerned abou...
Now the dust has settled, how should we account for the surge in youth turnout at the 2017 UK Genera...
This article explores whether the past few years have witnessed what can accurately be described as ...
Studies using data from the British Election Study and the British Social Attitudes survey have conc...
Young voters are very likely to turn out to vote in smaller numbers than older voters at the General...
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, Britain’s young people have been disproportionately af...
Continued experimentation with methods to make the process of voting easier signals a growing concer...
Young people in the UK find themselves economically and politically marginalised; abstention is not ...
This article is by Matteo Bergamini founder of Shout Out UK There are 35 constituencies in England a...
The political participation of 18 to 24-year-olds in British general elections is substantially lowe...
Young people in Britain are often characterised as disconnected from the formal political process an...
Young people don’t vote – or that was the conventional wisdom. However, polling data from the 2017 U...
Conventional wisdom holds that young people in Britain are alienated from politics, with some claimi...
One thing to emerge both on social media and on the streets after the referendum result was a clear ...
Following the outcome of the 2001 and 2005 General Elections, when the numbers of abstainers outwei...
Over the course of the last decade, policy makers in Britain have become increasingly concerned abou...
Now the dust has settled, how should we account for the surge in youth turnout at the 2017 UK Genera...
This article explores whether the past few years have witnessed what can accurately be described as ...
Studies using data from the British Election Study and the British Social Attitudes survey have conc...
Young voters are very likely to turn out to vote in smaller numbers than older voters at the General...
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, Britain’s young people have been disproportionately af...
Continued experimentation with methods to make the process of voting easier signals a growing concer...
Young people in the UK find themselves economically and politically marginalised; abstention is not ...
This article is by Matteo Bergamini founder of Shout Out UK There are 35 constituencies in England a...
The political participation of 18 to 24-year-olds in British general elections is substantially lowe...
Young people in Britain are often characterised as disconnected from the formal political process an...
Young people don’t vote – or that was the conventional wisdom. However, polling data from the 2017 U...
Conventional wisdom holds that young people in Britain are alienated from politics, with some claimi...
One thing to emerge both on social media and on the streets after the referendum result was a clear ...
Following the outcome of the 2001 and 2005 General Elections, when the numbers of abstainers outwei...
Over the course of the last decade, policy makers in Britain have become increasingly concerned abou...