Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics

by Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox

Book Overview

The past two decades of politics in Washington have seen increased partisanship, prolonged stalemates, and numerous scandals. For today's teenagers and young adults, years of ineffective and inefficient political leadership have completely eroded any sense that politicians or government have the ability to do good or effect positive change. Worse, the mean-spirited, dysfunctional political system that has come to characterize American politics has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199397651
• ISBN13: 9780199397655
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.4"