降低投票年龄降低民主质量?比较学校、同学和父母对15至18岁青少年政治兴趣和投票率的影响

IF 1.9 3区 社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sigrid Rossteutscher, T. Faas, A. Leininger, Armin Schäfer
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一些学者认为,将投票年龄从21岁降至18岁会导致投票率下降和政治不平等加剧。这个年龄段的人往往不再上学,经常离开父母的家,因此不再是主要的政治社会化机构所能接触到的。我们从行为层面上对其中一些说法及其对年轻人政治兴趣和投票率的影响进行了实证检验。我们以2017年德国石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因州的州选举为例,因为在这次选举之前,投票年龄已降至16岁。因此,我们能够比较16岁和17岁的人与18岁的“传统”首次选民的兴趣和投票率。我们的研究结果表明,将投票年龄降至16岁不太可能使一群投票率极低的选民获得选举权。事实上,与年龄稍大的选民相比,这可能有(相对)积极的影响,因为这个年龄段的公民仍然是有利于选举参与的社交网络的一部分。同时,由于网络同质性,降低投票年龄可能会扩大现有的不平等。
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Lowering the Quality of Democracy by Lowering the Voting Age? Comparing the Impact of School, Classmates, and Parents on 15- to 18-Year-Olds’ Political Interest and Turnout
ABSTRACT Some scholars argue that lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years led to declining turnout rates and increasing political inequality. Individuals in this age bracket are often no longer in school, frequently moved out from their parental home and are thus no longer within reach of the major political socialisation agents. We empirically test some of these claims and their effects on youngsters’ political interest and turnout on a behavioural level. We use the 2017 state election in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein as our case, as the voting age had been lowered to 16 prior to this election. Thus, we are able to compare interest and turnout of those who are 16 and 17 years old with ‘traditional’ first-time voters at age 18. Our results show that lowering the voting age to 16 is unlikely to enfranchise a group of voters with an extraordinarily low propensity to turnout. It might in fact have a (relative) positive effect compared to slightly older voters, as more citizens at this age are still part of social networks that are conducive to electoral participation. At the same time, lowering the voting age might magnify existing inequalities because of network homogeneity.
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German Politics
German Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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