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Pesek, Jessamay T. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2014
This study uses a comparative case study design to examine youth (ages 13-20) opinions toward compulsory voting across five democratic countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. Youth responses toward compulsory voting demonstrate how youth come to learn about citizen rights and responsibilities with varied understandings…
Descriptors: Voting, Compliance (Legal), Case Studies, Democratic Values
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Avery, Patricia G.; Levy, Sara A.; Simmons, Annette M. M.; Scarlett, Michael H. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2012
The term democracy has an overwhelmingly positive connotation for most people (Diamond & Plattner, 2008), yet it is a contested, fluid, and evolving concept that represents many different things to different people. This article presents our analysis of conceptions of democracy among groups of adolescents (n = 2,848, ages 13-19) in the Czech…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Democracy, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries