id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt v692t43812c Carmen J. Burlingame Reexamining Young Americans' Political Participation: An Optimistic Outlook for America's Future 2015 .txt text/plain 222 7 43 This thesis will demonstrate through examining rates of young people's political participation in 1964, 1976, 1988, and 2000 that the current generation of young people is no less apt to vote than their ancestors and are actually more likely to participate in atypical forms of participation than individuals in their age range in previous decades. Young people (ages 18-29) historically vote at lower rates than older individuals. cache/v692t43812c.txt txt/v692t43812c.txt