Recent trends across a wide range of contemporary established democracies like Britain, the US and across Europe suggest that there is a deepening disconnect between citizens and democratic politics. This is playing itself out in different ways in different contexts but is epitomised by lower levels of trust in formal political institutions accompanied by declining electoral participation. This is especially the case for young citizens, who have a more complex relationship with democratic politics than do older generations. In this chapter, we use original data from our own research that indicates that there are important intragenerational differences. Most young people in these advanced democracies hold relatively progressive and left-cosmopolitan views—particularly young women and those with experience of higher education. However, a worrying development is that there is an increasing proportion of young people in these counties who are turning to populist—sometimes xenophobic—parties and candidates; these groups are likely to be disproportionately comprised of young men and young people of low socio-economic status and education level. We therefore find that the continued engagement of young people in electoral politics is not guaranteed, and nor is the spread of progressive democratic values.