Aging, Voting, and Political Interest

The Political Participation of Older People in Europe

“…Overall, the theory does not hold up to empirical tests in the political realm -mostly concerning voting participation, but also campaign activity (Glenn 1969;Rollenhagen 1982). Norval Glenn and Michael Grimes (1968) refined the disengagement theory. Becoming a senior, they argue, might be accompanied by selective withdrawal, i.e.…”

La persistencia de las diferencias de género en el interés por la política

“…Both approaches favor a non-linear effect of age, whereas the accumulation of experience is likely to imply a linear effect. As people grow older, they tend to accumulate more resources, experience being one of them (Glenn and Grimes, 1968;Rosenstone and Hansen, 1993;Van Deth and Elff, 2000). We do not distinguish here between life-cycle and generation effects, since we are not performing a longitudinal analysis, although the tests we have run show a linear relationship between age and interest in politics.…”

Intergenerational Value Differences in Contemporary Lithuanian Society

“…The studies concluded that the youngest generation of Lithuanians (those that at the beginning of independence were teenagers or recently born), which had their formative years in the independent, democratic Lithuania, differ from the older generations in having very little interest in politics, low participation in elections, much weaker solidarity with socially excluded groups and weaker philanthropic attitudes (Žiliukaitė 2008). It is important to keep in mind that the discussed aspects could be not as much a feature of the generation as an age-and lifecycle-related behavior, particularly so since numerous studies clearly show such influence of the life-cycle on youth political participation (see, e.g., Glenn, Grimes 1968;Jennings, Niemi 1975;Putnam 2000;248).…”