Research on the political development of adolescents is mainly focused on political
engagement and attitudes. The more complex relationship between attitudes and voting …

Lowering the voting age is often criticized due to the alleged political immaturity of young
voters, which is considered as negative for the quality of democracy. We adopt a unique …

Young people are said to be uninterested in politics. This lack of political interest among
adolescents has been used as an argument against lowering the voting age. But why should …

While youth suffrage is widely debated, the causal effects of being eligible to vote on
adolescents' political attitudes are less well known. To gain insights into this question, we …

The persistence of adolescents' political attitudes and behaviors into adulthood is a
perennial concern in research on developmental psychology. While some authors claim that …

This cohort-sequential panel study on Dutch youths (N= 3394) and their parents examined
the formation of party preference between age 12 and 25. Specifically, it aimed to pinpoint …

An often used argument against lowering the voting age to the age of 16 is that this age
group would lack a sufficiently high level of “political maturity” and therefore would not be …

This cohort-sequential longitudinal study among 1302 Dutch youths examined the dynamics
of political identity (eg, Democrat or Rightist) and issue attitudes between age 12 and 30 …

The intergenerational transmission of political orientations has been the topic of
considerable research over the past few decades, but much of the evidence remains limited …

This article investigates to what extent party preferences learned during adolescence are
stable over time. Using a recently administered two-wave panel survey among 15-and 16 …