Episode 100: Why Young People Aren’t Interested in Running for Office (with Jennifer L. Lawless)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2015-09-18

Jennifer L. Lawless joins us for a discussion about why young people in America seem to be almost wholly uninterested in the idea of running for electoral office one day.

In a new survey of over 4,000 young Americans, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox have found that only 19% of respondents indicated that one of their future goals was to become a political leader. Why are these young people not interested in running for office? Will they change their mind later in life?

Show Notes and Further Reading

Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox’s 2015 book on this phenomenon, Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics.
http://www.amazon.com/Running-Office-Americans-Turned-Politics/dp/0199397651

The New Books in Political Science podcast—as its name implies—is a great source of information on current trends in political science.
http://newbooksinpoliticalscience.com/

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