Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101501

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Political Engagement Among the Young: The 2016-19 Australian Election Study. This project seeks to understand the declining level of political engagement among the young, with a view to developing measures that will help to re-invigorate their political participation. One of the greatest challenges to democracy in Australia and internationally is to understand the lack of political engagement among the young. Young people today are less likely to vote, to join a political party, or to engage in interest groups than at any time since democratisation. The 2016–19 Australian Election Study is designed to address this question by surveying a representative sample of voters in the 2016 and 2019 elections. The project is also designed to add to an unbroken series of post-election national opinion surveys which have monitored trends in Australian political behaviour since 1987.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-2016

End Date: 06-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $406,890.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative Government and Politics | Australian Government and Politics | Political Science

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Electoral Systems |