Analyze The Role Of Older Adults In Politics

Politics is becoming a more popular subject that people are getting into. Young adults are taught about the United States government in high school. According to Kei Kawashima- Ginsberg and Peter Levine (2014), the likeliness of someone voting after taking a government class in high school is higher. Which means that younger people are starting to want to vote because of the increase in knowledge about politics and are interested in making an impact in our world. In a study, Geinsberg and Levine found that people who strongly for one party or another had a higher chance of being informed voters as well as those who are educated. A study done by Nathan Manning and Kathy Edwards (2014) showed that students who did well in classes such as civic education class were more likely to register to vote and actually vote. Manning and Edwards study also showed that four of the many studies conducted showed that civic education class increased political expression. The term political expression means activities like signing a petition and being actively engaged in what is happening in politics.
Kathryn E. Fitzpatrick Bettencourt, Tammi Vacha-Haase and Zinta S. Byrne (2011) conducted a study to see the difference between younger adults and older adults on feminism. The results from the study showed that older adults show a more conservative outlook on topics such as feminism while the younger generation is more open to it. Younger adults tend to show a more liberal view when it comes to politics while he or she parents show a more conservative view. This may be because of the experiences the older adults had that the younger generation did not have to deal with. Some of those experiences are freedom rights for minorities and