Anticipated Political Engagement among Adolescents in Australia, England, Norway and the United States

Abstract

In the late 1980s and early 1990s massive changes toward democratization took place across the world, and leaders in many countries began looking for guidance about what this meant for their youth and for the systems that were educating them. Little evidence from the social sciences was available to guide this process, as the study of political socialization had declined from a high point in the mid-1970s (Cook, 1985), with little research taking place during the decade and a half after 1980.