Is the Youth Vote Liberal? : Analyzing Attitudes toward Business and Regulation

Cook, Zachary

Lexington Books（2024/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 238 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781666925708
• DDC分類 320.900835

Full Description

Young Americans are not reliable liberals. But drawing from over one hundred surveys from the present day back to the Great Depression, and from interviews with campaign professionals from the Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders campaigns, Zachary Cook argues that across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, younger Americans have more faith in the power of government to provide better economic outcomes for all, and to effectively regulate business - if the right politicians can be found to do it. While older voters grow more skeptical about the federal government's power to oversee the private sector, youth are more idealistic about the power of government to "do more," even while they may distrust current politicians in office. Younger voters are not hostile to capitalism. They do not feel they have to choose sides between big government and big business. Given the current two-party system, this potential trust in the power of government works in the Democrats' favor when appealing to the youth vote.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Does Youth Matter?
Chapter Two: What is Limited Liberalism?
Chapter Three: Methodological Challenges
Chapter Four: What About Pre-1960s Youth Cohorts?
Chapter Five: Partisanship and Candidate Choice
Chapter Six: How Campaign Professionals View the Youth Vote
Chapter Seven: The 2020 Election and Beyond
Bibliography
About the Author