Does The Voting Age Increase Political Participation?
Some may believe that voting age is not the only reason as to why the teenagers are not paying attention to the politics and there is no evidence that lowering the voting age would increase political participation. They believe that there are major reasons as to why the political participation has declined rather that the issue of the voting age. While the view is probably wrong when they claim that there is no evidence to prove the connection between voting age and political participation, it is right that voting age is not only reason to result teenagers’ lack of interest in politics. According to Henn and Foard (2012), when the young people are being exposed or included to politics while they are in school their self-efficacy increases hence