Blog 17: Best Answer #3

• EQ 
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
• The Best Way to address declining youth voter participation is to address the systematic inhibitors of voting that lower perception of the effectiveness of voting.
• 3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact anad an example
• There is increased perception of the structural weaknesses of government such as, and only 20% of people trust the government to make the correct decision.
• Issues such as Gerrymandering are more prominent and negatively impacting the effects of voting by creating concentrated blocs of political power. Their presence effectively disenfranchises voters and lends credence to the pointlessness of voting. 
• Research has concluded that many find their trust in the government diminished by scandals and the impression that the government fails to address those issues properly. By encouraging a connection to politics, a sentiment which research has found to be the best way to encourage a lifelong involvment in politics, youth voters are likely to be benefited from the perception that there is change.
• The research source (s) to support your details and answer
• Wendel, Stephen. "The Dynamics of Political Participation: An Analysis
  of the Dynamic Interaction between Individuals and their Political
  Micro-Environment." Order No. 3517713 University of Maryland, College
  Park, 2012. Ann Arbor: ProQuest. Web. 26 Sep. 2014.
• Kuttner, Robert. The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Print.
• Record, Matthew. "Empowerment and Education: Why Young People Don't Vote." Scholars and Rogues Progressive Culture. Scholars and Rogues, 11 Nov. 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.
• Concluding Sentence
• Addressing these issues would aid the government as a whole in addition to helping out people.