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アメリカの若者は今も投票する——ただ、それが重要だとは信じていないだけだ

Young Americans Still Vote—They Just Don't Believe It Matters

ハーバード大学の最新世論調査で、米国の若者の制度への信頼が過去最低を記録。投票はしても民主主義を信じられない——「信念なき参加」の実態に迫る。
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In Harvard’s Spring 2026 Youth Poll, the most unsettling finding was not partisan preference but institutional disbelief: only 33% of Americans aged 18 to 29 said they trusted the 2026 elections would be conducted fairly, while 43% said they did not and 21% were unsure. Half said that people like them have no real say in what government does, and only 15% said they trust the federal government to do the right thing most or all of the time—the lowest level ever recorded in the poll. That is the grammar of a legitimacy crisis: citizens may still participate, but they no longer assume the system is worthy of confidence. (iop.harvard.edu)

Why has belief eroded so sharply? The Harvard data suggest that distrust is rooted in lived experience as much as ideology. Inflation and housing were the issues most likely to affect young adults “a lot,” and 45% said they were either struggling to make ends meet or surviving with little financial security. When daily life feels economically punitive, elections can start to resemble ceremonies of elite circulation rather than mechanisms of democratic redress. The same poll found that 68% believe elected officials are driven by selfish motives, and majorities think both parties care more about elites than about people like them. (iop.harvard.edu)

And yet this is not simple apathy. Tufts University’s CIRCLE estimates that 47% of Americans aged 18 to 29 voted in the 2024 presidential election—slightly below 2020, but still far above 2016. In other words, many young people still cast ballots even while doubting the efficacy of the act itself. That paradox also appears in AP-NORC’s July 2025 polling: only about two-thirds of adults under 30 said voting is very or extremely important, and younger adults were far less likely than older Americans to follow politics closely. The problem, then, is not indifference alone; it is participation without faith. (circle.tufts.edu)

Seen in a wider frame, youth distrust is less an outlier than an early warning. In March 2026, Pew found that 69% of Americans were dissatisfied with the way democracy is working, while 68% said U.S. democracy used to be a good example for other countries but has not been in recent years. Harvard’s young respondents are therefore not abandoning democracy in a vacuum. They are reacting to a republic whose promises feel procedurally thin, economically unresponsive, and emotionally remote. The danger is not that the young have stopped caring. It is that they care enough to notice the distance between democratic ideals and democratic performance. (pewresearch.org)

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