“Medicare? I don’t care.”: Youth Voting in America
Lecture by Martin Wattenberg
18 min
Summary:
Young people are not only less likely to register to vote, but they also turn out at the polls in much smaller numbers. Since public policy reflects the needs of voters, this has had very real effects on public policy in this country.
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Martin P. Wattenberg is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine, where he conducts research on elections and political parties in the United States and other advanced industrialized democracies.
