TY - JOUR AU - Axelrod, Regina AB - BOOK REVIEWS | 523 school they s, find tha t these concept are, s indeed, separabl but e relate aspect d s of adole ­ s cent politica invol l vement. The timing of thei rstudy is particular propitious. ly Since the data were collecte on d the eve of the Nixon resignation, Sigel and Hoskin are able to delineate the responses of young people to Watergat e. It is noteworthy that the reactions of the young in many ways parallel those ed of adults. It will be interesting to see if these event sform the kernel of the political consciousness of the generation that came of politica age l during the seventies in the way that the depressio n of the thirties and McCarthyism of the fifties becam centr e al to the politica worl l ds of earli er generations. What is frustrating about Sigel and Hoskin ’s study is tha tthey lack a comparative ref­ erence point on which to moor their findings. When they point out, for example tha , t no more than 53 percent of their adolesce re nt spondents coul d answe corre r ctl mor y e than half of a TI - Environmental Mediation: The Search for Consensus, by Laura M. Lake JO - Political Science Quarterly DO - 10.2307/2150019 DA - 1982-09-15 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/environmental-mediation-the-search-for-consensus-by-laura-m-lake-rjjGOCIam0 SP - 523 EP - 525 VL - 97 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -