Not Too Young to Run? Age requirements and young people in elected office
Promoting youth representation in parliaments is a growing global priority. To promote youth leadership and more inclusive politics, youth organizations in Nigeria mobilized successfully for a constitutional reform to lower the eligibility age to run for political office. In this paper, we draw on g...
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| description | Promoting youth representation in parliaments is a growing global priority. To promote youth leadership and more inclusive politics, youth organizations in Nigeria mobilized successfully for a constitutional reform to lower the eligibility age to run for political office. In this paper, we draw on global data to assess whether lower eligibility ages will in fact lead to higher levels of youth participation. We find that lower age requirements positively affect the representation of the youngest and next youngest cohorts in parliament. We draw on qualitative interviews and gender literature to theorize that lower age limits have immediate and longer-term “mobilizing effects”, shifting the calculations of potential candidates in terms of the age at which they first decide to run for office. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d7414244571342878a953c2564bd6dbc2023-03-31T12:50:27ZengTübingen UniversityIntergenerational Justice Review2190-63352018-12-014210.24357/igjr.4.2.702Not Too Young to Run? Age requirements and young people in elected officeMona Lena Krook0Mary K. Nugent1Rutgers UniversityRutgers UniversityPromoting youth representation in parliaments is a growing global priority. To promote youth leadership and more inclusive politics, youth organizations in Nigeria mobilized successfully for a constitutional reform to lower the eligibility age to run for political office. In this paper, we draw on global data to assess whether lower eligibility ages will in fact lead to higher levels of youth participation. We find that lower age requirements positively affect the representation of the youngest and next youngest cohorts in parliament. We draw on qualitative interviews and gender literature to theorize that lower age limits have immediate and longer-term “mobilizing effects”, shifting the calculations of potential candidates in terms of the age at which they first decide to run for office.https://ethik-und-gesellschaft.de/ojs/index.php/igjr/article/view/702YouthYoung peoplePoliticsParliamentNigeria |
| spellingShingle | Mona Lena Krook Mary K. Nugent Not Too Young to Run? Age requirements and young people in elected office Intergenerational Justice Review Youth Young people Politics Parliament Nigeria |
| title | Not Too Young to Run? Age requirements and young people in elected office |
| title_full | Not Too Young to Run? Age requirements and young people in elected office |
| title_fullStr | Not Too Young to Run? Age requirements and young people in elected office |
| title_full_unstemmed | Not Too Young to Run? Age requirements and young people in elected office |
| title_short | Not Too Young to Run? Age requirements and young people in elected office |
| title_sort | not too young to run age requirements and young people in elected office |
| topic | Youth Young people Politics Parliament Nigeria |
| url | https://ethik-und-gesellschaft.de/ojs/index.php/igjr/article/view/702 |
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