Event Date: January 24, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST
Location: FSS 4004

Presented by CIPS

Daniel Stockemer will give a talk about his recently published book: Youth without Representation: The Absence of Young Adults in Parliaments, Cabinets and Candidacies (co-authored with Aksel Sundström).

Officeholders in contemporary parliaments and cabinets are more likely than not to be male, wealthy, middle-aged or older, and from the dominant ethnicity, whereas young adults have an insufficient presence in political office. Young adults—those aged 35 years or under—comprise a mere ten percent of all parliamentarians globally, and three percent of all cabinet members. Compared to their presence in the world’s population, this age group faces an underrepresentation of one to three in parliament and one to ten in cabinet. In this book launch  Stockemer provides a holistic account of youths’ marginalization in legislatures, cabinets, and candidacies for office through a comparative lens. He argues that youths’ underrepresentation in political office constitutes a democratic deficit and provide ample evidence for why he thinks that youth must be present in politics at much higher rates. He further embeds his presentation within what they label a vicious cycle of political alienation, which involves the declining political sophistication of the young, their waning electoral participation, and their insufficient of representation in office. 

The event will be in English.

Speaker:

Daniel Stockemer is Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies and Full Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His main research interests are political participation, political representation, right-wing extremism in Europe, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods. Since becoming a professor in 2010, Dr. Stockemer has published 4 single authored book, 1 edited volume, 1 textbook and more than 120 articles in peer reviewed journals. Daniel has several editorial commitments. He is editor of European Political Science (EPS), the professional journal of European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), editor of the Springer Book Series in Electoral Politics. Since the fall of 2019, he is also editor of the International Political Science Review.

Moderator:

André Lecours is a Full Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.