Commentary on The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation Is Reshaping American Politics by Russell J. Dalton

Many political analysts believe participation is an important feature of democracy, but the younger generation is indifferent to politics. They are more interested in the latest iPhone technology than campaigns and polls. In "How good is the citizenship: How young people change American politics", author Russell J. Dalton refutes the view that the X generation is still involved in various ways. The book is divided into three parts. Chapters 1 to 3 delicately combine theory with survey data to characterize modern American citizenship norms.

In 2008, "How does the young generation change the politics of the United States?", Russell Dalton said that the shift from election to non-election between this generation became a more participatory new A citizenship model with a more direct attitude towards the government who thinks it is. Increasing tolerance for the minorities, and the growing attention to others' happiness. The initial question raised several public policy options. Most directly, Australia is one of the few countries without Youth Ministers, and it is one of the few counties that does not have a national youth policy. This will immediately establish a formal framework to meet the needs and desires of the young people in Australia and oblige young voices at every government level to be considered.

Political participation is extremely important for democracy, and that is why the new form of political participation, which was mentioned as "good citizen" by Russell J. Dalton, is attracting attention. In this paper, after reviewing the results of Dalton's research, explaining its origin to the concept of human empowerment, we associate them with the concept of social capital and found that Dalton's new political participation form is not a form of social capital . Form the social capital itself, otherwise. I will go to the extreme. It also evaluated the impact of the decline in the voter turnout rate and concluded that we need to update the new political system with or without voting.

Political scientists such as Russell J. Dalton and Pippa Norris observed in the 1990s that many established democracy lost confidence in the political system 4. Outsider elections achieved unexpected results. In 2017 general general complaints about the political situation were highlighted. Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk warned that the West is witnessing the early signs of "the collapse of democracy", not only did young people who established democracy lower confidence in political leaders, Support for democracy as a political system is decreasing. The previous generation 5 people are worried that Western democracy may slowly decay from the inside, and citizens no longer promise to protect key democratic values ​​and institutions.