Why Youth Vote Identity, Inspirational Leaders and Independence /

• Main Author: Gentry, Bobbi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Elections.; United States-Politics and government.; Democracy.; Electoral Politics.; US Politics.

This book examines the reasons why young people vote. Viewing political behavior through a psychological lens, this book uses psychological developmental models to test the theory of political identity development and explain how and why young people vote. Rather than studying why young people do no...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
•  Chapter 2:  Identity Development in Politics
•  Chapter 3:  Conceptualizing Identity Development in Politics
•   Chapter 4:  Inspirational Leaders and their Effects on the Identity of Youth
•  Chapter 5: Political Independence and Identity
•   Chapter 6:  Identity Development and Other Explanations
•  Chapter 7: Conclusions.