Do Young MPs Represent Young Voters? A Quantitative Text Analysis of Substantive Youth Representation in the Bundestag Globally, parliaments are dominated by middle-aged lawmakers, leading to descriptive underrepresentation of young adults in national legislatures. Recent research has begun to analyse the causes of...

New publication on #substantive #youthpolrep in the German Bundestag by @robrentrop.bsky.social :

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Bibliography | Youth Political Repr

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Youth Political Representation in Latvia and Estonia: From Electoral Entry to Parliamentary Action PhD thesis defence by Ieva Hofmane

Dear #youthpolrep colleagues and friends, I’m excited to invite you to my thesis defence - online or in person at EUI! 🎓✨
Endless thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social and Aksel Sundström for guiding me to the PhD finish line 🥳

www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Why Does a Legislator’s Age Matter? Re-Conceptualising Youth Representation Representation of young adults in legislatures has been the subject of increasing empirical study, with a growing number of studies addressing the causes of low rates of youth representation. While...

🚨New Publication🚨

Interesting piece on why a legislator’s age matters:

@wigginton.ca re-conceptualizes youth representation in @repjournal.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#youthpolrep

A perfect match! Entitled
“Reinventing Democracy for the 21st Century”, the 4th Global Conference on Parliamentary Studies today takes place in the cradle of democracy. 🇬🇷 Happy to present work with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social & @hallehellmann.bsky.social on youth representation. #youthpolrep

@hallehellmann.bsky.social hat gestern joint work mit @danschindler.bsky.social präsentiert - basierend auf der beeindruckenden Datensammlung zu politischen Kandidat*innen am @iparl.bsky.social !

#youthpolrep

Very interesting and important piece on how youth's descriptive representation impacts turnout by @bcastanho.bsky.social !

#youthpolrep

Very interesting paper by Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & @chriswratil.bsky.social on the demand side of representation with strong implications for research on #youthpolrep

New publication on age-related representation preferences of different age groups by @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, @wurthmann.bsky.social & @martingross.bsky.social

#youthpolrep #Germany

The Influence of Age on Citizens’ Preferences for Age‐Related Descriptive Representation | Article | Politics and Governance Kira Renée Kurz, L. Constantin Wurthmann, Martin Gross

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Such a nice surprise on the first day of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣: Our article on age-related representation preferences has been published yesterday in Politics and Governance 🎉

w/ @wurthmann.bsky.social & @martingross.bsky.social

#openaccess #youthpolrep

www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

And another exiting new publication on #youthpolrep! This time from Pankaj Kumar Patel and TV Sekher on the discrepancy between population age and the age in the Indian national parliament, the Lok Sabha:

www.iipsindia.ac.in/sites/defaul...