Youth Electoral Study (YES)

Report 3: Youth, The Family, and Learning About Politics and Voting

Authors: Dr Kathy Edwards as Senior Research Associate, CRTC, University of Sydney
Dr. Larry Saha, Reader in Sociology, ANU
A/Professor Murray Print, Centre for Research & Teaching in Civics, University of Sydney

Date: November 2006

Youth Electoral Study (YES) – Report 3: Youth, The Family, and Learning About Politics and Voting [PDF 330k].

Contents

• The YES Project
  • Project Objectives
  • Project Methodology
• Political Socialisation, Political Learning and the Family
  • Political Socialisation in the Literature
  • Families in Australia: Forms, Characteristics and Resources
  • The Family and Gender
  • The Gender Gap in Political Participation
• Discussions about Politics and Voting in Families
  • Sources of Information about Voting: Family and Gender
  • The Effectiveness of Information about Voting
  • What happens when parents are uninterested in politics?
• Learning about Politics in Families
  • What effect do families have in attitudes toward politics?
  • Parent-Student Conflicts about Politics
• The Family and Learning about How to Enrol To Vote
  • The Family and Attitudes Towards Voting in the YES Survey
  • The Provision of Information about Enrolling to Vote, Voting and Elections by Parents
  • The Family and Learning How to Enrol to Vote
  • Parents as Sources of Knowledge or Facilitators
• The Family and Learning How to Vote at Elections
  • Experiences of Visiting Polling Booths
  • Awareness of Parental Talk about Voting
• Conclusion and References