Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics
- ISBN-10
- 0199397651
- ISBN-13
- 9780199397655
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 211
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Richard Logan Fox, Jennifer L. Lawless
Description
Running from Office provides an authoritative account of young people's interest in running for office and the factors that trigger and undermine their ambition. Lawless and Fox base their analysis on a national survey of over 4,000 high school and college students regarding their political ambition.
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