Youth politics

Research from the Czech Republic suggests that young MPs are more productive than their middle-aged and senior colleagues in their legislative duties and are also more likely to challenge party discipline at roll call.

In the recent Mexico’s presidential election another manifestation of how the youth take the politics in the actual world were see, the students movement called “Yo soy 132” made a very notable change in how the elections developed, showing proofs of the electoral fraud they thought will happen, they changed the percentage of acceptation of the PRI candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto and they achieved to decrease it around 12 percentage points between the highest poll results for the candidate and the final results of the elections.

This activism is in part because young people have been particularly affected by various crises (political, social, economic, environmental) notably austerity.

Between the influence of mainstream media and politicians, youth politics in the United States has been illegitimated and deprioritized[citation needed].

[3] Data collected in by the National Center for Education Statistics found that overall young Americans care more about entertainment and sports than political and foreign news.

[4] Despite these statistics there is a positive outlook on youth involvement in the future because of the 2008 election when President Barack Obama ran.