Springtide Research Institute was recently mentioned by Catholic Courier, in an article featuring quotes from Senior Research Associate Dr. Nabil Tueme. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety.

Nabil Tueme, senior research associate at Springtide Research Institute, told OSV News, “Teens and young adults are in a formative stage of political learning.”

“They’re picking up political cues from their parents, friends, and social contexts,” Tueme said. “They have unprecedented access to political information and events through their smartphones and social media. Thus, many of them have formed strong opinions on the two major political parties in this country. In general, young people told us that they dislike the political party system as a whole and see political parties as inauthentic — saying one thing, but doing the opposite.”

The report found an equal percentage of participants ages 13 to 25 identify as Republican or Democrat — 23%; more than half said they did not identify with a major political party at all.

“Whether these partisan attitudes will persist remains to be seen,” Tueme added. “Research on the stability of these attitudes is mixed. Some studies show that early political experiences can have far-reaching consequences on partisanship across the lifespan, while others find that national moods, mass media effects, and key political events mediate political identification.”

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