Book/Printed Material Youthquake 2017 : The Rise of Young Cosmopolitans in Britain

Title

• Youthquake 2017 : The Rise of Young Cosmopolitans in Britain

Summary

• This book investigates the reasons behind the 2017 youthquake - which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, and an unprecedented gap in youth support for Labour over the Conservative Party - from both a comparative and a theoretical perspective. It compares youth turnout and party allegiance over time and traces changes in youth political participation in the UK since the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis - from austerity, to the 2016 EU referendum, to the rise of Corbyn - up until the election in June 2017 General Election. The book identifies the rise of cosmopolitan values and left-leaning attitudes amongst Young Millennials - particularly students and young women. The situation in the UK is also contrasted with developments in youth participation in other established democracies, including the youthquakes inspired by Obama in the US (2008) and Trudeau in Canada (2015). James Sloam is Reader in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is co-convenor of the UK Political Studies Association (PSA) specialist group on young people's politics. His work focuses on youth politics in Europe and the United States, inequalities in political participation, and the role of education in democratic engagement. Matt Henn is Professor of Social Research at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the Research Coordinator for Politics and International Relations and Coordinator of Postgraduate Research in the School of Social Sciences. He has published widely on the subject of young people and politics over the last two decades.

Names

• Sloam, James, author
• Henn, Matt, author

Created / Published

• Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.

Contents

• Introduction -- 1. Rejuvenating Politics: Youth Political Participation in a Changing World -- 2. The Silent Revolution in Youth Political Engagement -- 3. Young Cosmopolitans Against Brexit -- 4. Youthquake: Young People and the 2017 General Election -- Conclusion.

Headings

• -  Comparative politics
• -  Democracy
• -  Elections
• -  Family
• -  Social groups
• -  British Politics
• -  Comparative Politics
• -  Electoral Politics
• -  Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging
• -  Great Britain--Politics and government

Notes

• -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
• -  Political Science and International Studies (R0) (SpringerNature-43724)
• -  Political Science and International Studies (SpringerNature-41174)

Medium

• 1 online resource (XIII, 129 pages 20 illustrations)

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019771007

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019771007

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access
• Open Access

Online Format

• image
• epub

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019771007

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• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record