Description
Book SynopsisProvides an holistic account of youths’ marginalization in legislatures, cabinets, and candidacies for office through a comparative lens. The authors argue that youths’ underrepresentation in political office constitutes a democratic deficit and provide ample evidence for why they think that youth must be present in politics at much higher rates.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Why we need increased youth representation
- Chapter 3. Youths’ underrepresentation in national parliaments
- Chapter 4. Youth representation across party delegations in parliament
- Chapter 5. Young politicians in cabinet
- Chapter 6. Youth as candidates and elected representatives
- Chapter 7. Explaining (more) variation in youth representation: Insights from an original survey in Sweden and Switzerland
- Chapter 8. Conclusions
