Psychology
The Impact of Civic Education on Youth Political Participation
Quick fact
A randomized study in the United States found that students who received an interactive—rather than traditional lecture-based—civic education curriculum were 4 to 6 percentage points more likely to vote within two years, effectively closing the gap in voting between students from high- and low-income families.
Why this is interesting
You sat through a civics class in high school, but did it actually make you more likely to vote? Surprisingly, the answer often depends less on what you were taught, and more on how it was taught.