{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9a03fe9e-1ff0-4dcc-b3f6-50bd1f016ea4/3405b8c7-e8ed-41cf-bf67-979e18ce1c81?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Young People vs Joe Biden","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195701f2eacc3a36070252a/619570bccb3c660012e3ce9f.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>This week we talk about race and representation with Cathy Cohen of the GenForward Survey project based in Chicago.&nbsp;What do young Americans want from democratic politics?&nbsp;How do their priorities vary according to race and ethnicity?&nbsp;And can a Biden presidency deliver on the desire for real change?&nbsp;Plus we catch up with Jeevun Sandher and Michael Bankole of the Politics Jam podcast to explore a UK perspective on why young and minority voices find it so hard to be heard.</p><p><br></p><p>Talking Points:</p><p><br></p><p>We are seeing more racial and ethnic diversity in generations than ever before.</p><ul><li>Young people break for Biden, but for young white men, it was about 50-50.</li><li>In 2012, a plurality of young whites voted for Romney. If we look only at generation we miss part of the story.</li><li>The story about ‘young people’ is being driven by young people of colour.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Does Biden have a problem with young people?</p><ul><li>Many young people voted against Trump rather than for Biden.</li><li>They decided to vote against Trump and organize against Biden.</li><li>What is the best method for achieving racial progress in the US? Young African Americans are pointing to the need for structural change.</li><li>Young people are rejecting the idea that change comes from national-level voting. They are redefining what democratic practice might be.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Young people broadly favor a more expansive state.</p><ul><li>The Biden agenda is more about tweaking at the edges.</li><li>There is going to be a real tension. Will there be the infrastructure to mobilize young people? Can they pressure the administration?</li><li>This generation is highly educated, but they are also precarious. There is an increasing mismatch between the promise of higher education and what it delivers.</li><li>The younger generation is highly indebted because of higher education.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>In both the UK and the US, young people haven’t been represented well by the political system.</p><ul><li>There are specific issues that young people want to see addressed, including systemic racism.</li><li>Ethnic differences among young people need to be taken into account in the UK too.</li><li>The political class in the House of Commons is unrepresentative in many ways. It skews old and it skews white.</li><li>Conservatives tend to represent white seats. The First-Past-the-Post system doesn’t incentivize serious engagement with ethnically diverse constituencies.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://genforwardsurvey.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The GenForward Survey</a></li><li><a href=\"http://blackyouthproject.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Youth Project</a></li><li><a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/politics-jam/id1512260254\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Politics JaM</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/jeevun-sandher\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jeevun’s academic profile</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/michael-bankole\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Michael’s academic profile</a></li><li><a href=\"https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0198294158.001.0001/acprof-9780198294153\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Phillips, <em>The Politics of Presence</em></a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13572334.2011.595121\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Saalfeld on substantive representation</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>And as ever, recommended reading curated by our friends at the LRB can be found here: </strong><a href=\"http://lrb.co.uk/talking\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>lrb.co.uk/talking</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"David Runciman and Catherine Carr"}