Young Americans seem poised for unprecedented levels of civic and political participation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Will the recent wave of youth activism in protesting racial injustice translate into higher turnout rates in the 2020 election? Historically, youth voter turnout has been abysmal. Young citizens typically vote at half the rate of older citizens, and this gap in turnout is much worse in the United States than other democracies. In our new book, Making Young Voters (Cambridge University Press, 2020), John Holbein and I offer a new explanation for the low levels of youth turnout and propose possible policy solutions

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Professor Hillygus has published widely on the topics of American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methods, public opinion, and information technology and politics. She is co-author of Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). She is director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology (and co-director of the Polarization Lab. From 2003-2009, she taught at Harvard University, where she was the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government and founding director of the Program on Survey Research.

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