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Are young people today politically ´apathetic´? Or are they democratically ´mature´ citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to reveal changes in young people´s political participation in Europe in recent decades. It uses various concepts of ´age´ to compare participation across countries and over time.

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1. Introduction 2. Equivalent Measures of Political Participation 3. Political Participation and Age 4. Young People´s Political Participation in Europe 5. Generational Change? Political Generations and Cohorts in Europe 6. Too Young to Participate? 7. Conclusions

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Gema García-Albacete is Researcher at the University of Madrid, Spain. Her research focuses on political behaviour, political attitudes and civic education.

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