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Youth and Civic Action

Jan 15, 2020

Young adults are the future of civic life in any society. At the same time, in the United States and elsewhere, formal political participation by youth has been far from universal in recent years. How could youth be invited and encouraged to participate? On this episode, we talk with Sunshine Hillygus, faculty member at Duke University and co-author of a new book called Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action.