Jan 28, 2017 08:20 PM
http://www.futurity.org/millennials-elec...1345192-2/
EXCERPT: Very few millennials are interested in pursuing elected office, says political scientist Shauna Shames. [...] “Few in this generation are interested in serving in political office,” says Shames of millennials (roughly, people born between the early 1980s and late 1990s). “It wasn’t just women and people of color who had reasons not to be interested, although women of color did feel these reasons more deeply.”
[...] “For many of these young people, there were many rewards to running for office, but when they added up the costs, the overall net reward was around zero; often the high costs even outweighed the potential,” she says.
The biggest reason cited was the “unsavory” need to raise campaign funds—spending time asking others for money, and, in the process, what the respondents viewed as compromising one’s principles. [...] Another primary reason, says Shames, was the fear of media intrusion into the private lives of candidates and their families. “There was this overwhelming fear that one’s family would (be) under constant surveillance, gossiped about, or attacked,” she explains....
EXCERPT: Very few millennials are interested in pursuing elected office, says political scientist Shauna Shames. [...] “Few in this generation are interested in serving in political office,” says Shames of millennials (roughly, people born between the early 1980s and late 1990s). “It wasn’t just women and people of color who had reasons not to be interested, although women of color did feel these reasons more deeply.”
[...] “For many of these young people, there were many rewards to running for office, but when they added up the costs, the overall net reward was around zero; often the high costs even outweighed the potential,” she says.
The biggest reason cited was the “unsavory” need to raise campaign funds—spending time asking others for money, and, in the process, what the respondents viewed as compromising one’s principles. [...] Another primary reason, says Shames, was the fear of media intrusion into the private lives of candidates and their families. “There was this overwhelming fear that one’s family would (be) under constant surveillance, gossiped about, or attacked,” she explains....