The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts

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Tables Table 3.1 Self-reported daily newspaper readership 55 Table 3.2 Media use 65 Table 3.3 Home Internet Access in Europe 69 Table 4.1 Conventional political participation 78 Table 4.2. Fourteen-year-olds’ willingness to vote 83 Table 4.3 Voting behavior and attitudes toward voting 86–87 Table 4.4 Turnout in U.S. national elections, 1960–2008 89 Table 4.4 Voter turnout in Canadian elections 1945–2008 92 Table 4.6 Estimated Turnout by age in Canadian 2006 and 2004 elections 93 Table 5.1 Correct answers to political knowledge questions 100 Table 5.2. Political knowledge of Finnish youth 104 Table 5.3 Average political knowledge 106 Table 5.4a Which party is more conservative 107 Table 5.4b Who is entitled to vote 108 Table 5.5 Reported weekly media use 109 Table 5.6 Media use and political knowledge Americans and Canadians 15–25 110 Table 5.7 Political knowledge in Canada 111 Table 5.8 Media use by language spoken among Canadians aged 15–25 112 Table 8.1 Election dates in parliamentary and mixed systems 163 Table 9.1 Relationship between civic education in class and political knowledge in Americans and Canadians aged 15–25 180 Table 9.2 Youth turnout in the 2006 Canadian general election 182 Table 9.3 Youth turnout in the 2004 Canadian general election 183 Table 9.4 Relationship between volunteering and political knowledge, Americans and Canadians aged 15–25 189 Table 9.5 Relationship between volunteering and political knowledge, Anglophone and Francophone Canadians 192 Table 10.1 Relationship between participating in school groups and political knowledge, Americans and Canadians aged 15–25 198 Table 10.2 Relationship between type of school group and political knowledge, Americans and Canadians aged 15–25 198 Table 10.3 The importance of types of civic education content 211 ...