Lecture Year: 2022, March 8-9, 2022
Series
Identifier: CAC_IA_3_2022
Link to all digital lectures: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf4g93KWAK-EMn14P0NXfn8te07eaiSoy
Making Young Voters: Promoting Youth Engagement in American Democracy 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. Despite a dismal track record of turnout in past elections, young Americans seemed poised for a wave of youth engagement in the 2020 presidential election. Did it come to fruition? What are the prospects for the future?
March 8 & 9, 2022 Online Events Session One on Tues. March 8, 2022 (2-3:30 pm CT) will address the youth vote in America and Dr. Hillygus’ research on this topic. It will start with an overview, followed by a live presentation by Dr. Hillygus and Q&A with the audience.
Session Two on Wed. March 9, 2022 (12-2 pm CT) features a panel discussion with Prof. Hillygus, Carl Albert Center director of Civic Engagement Lauren Schueler, Campus Vote Project Student Advisory Board member Kamryn Yanchick and others.
Join our panelists for a roundtable discussion on best practices for improving youth voter turnout on campus and in the greater community. The practitioners will talk about the daily work they do to increase registration and turnout while our Rothbaum speaker will let us know what the science says on the topic.
Making Young Voters: Promoting Youth Engagement in American Democracy 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. Despite a dismal track record of turnout in past elections, young Americans seemed poised for a wave of youth engagement in the 2020 presidential election. Did it come to fruition? What are the prospects for the future?
March 8 & 9, 2022 Online Events Session One on Tues. March 8, 2022 (2-3:30 pm CT) will address the youth vote in America and Dr. Hillygus’ research on this topic. It will start with an overview, followed by a live presentation by Dr. Hillygus and Q&A with the audience.
Session Two on Wed. March 9, 2022 (12-2 pm CT) features a panel discussion with Prof. Hillygus, Carl Albert Center director of Civic Engagement Lauren Schueler, Campus Vote Project Student Advisory Board member Kamryn Yanchick and others.
Join our panelists for a roundtable discussion on best practices for improving youth voter turnout on campus and in the greater community. The practitioners will talk about the daily work they do to increase registration and turnout while our Rothbaum speaker will let us know what the science says on the topic.
Dates
- Other: March 8-9, 2022
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D. Sunshine Hillygus, Distinguished Lecturer
D. Sunshine Hillygus
D. Sunshine Hillygus is professor of political science and public policy at Duke University, where she is also director of the Initiative on Survey Methodology and co-director of the Polarization Lab. Her research focuses on public opinion, political communication, political behavior, and survey methodology, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
She is co-author of Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). The Persuadable Voter won the 2009 Robert E. Lane award for the best book in political psychology published in the previous year.
Hillygus is the author or co-author of numerous publications and research articles, serves on the editorial boards of many professional journals and is associate editor of Political Analysis. She was associate PI of the American National Election Study (2018-2021), served on the U.S. Census Bureau's Scientific Advisory Committee (2012-2018), and was a member of the American National Election Studies board (2010-2013, 2014-2017).
Hillygus has been recognized with numerous honors, awards and grants including the Henry and Bryna David Endowment award and lecture (National Academy of Sciences, 2020) and the Howard D. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University, 2019).
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.
D. Sunshine Hillygus is professor of political science and public policy at Duke University, where she is also director of the Initiative on Survey Methodology and co-director of the Polarization Lab. Her research focuses on public opinion, political communication, political behavior, and survey methodology, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
She is co-author of Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). The Persuadable Voter won the 2009 Robert E. Lane award for the best book in political psychology published in the previous year.
Hillygus is the author or co-author of numerous publications and research articles, serves on the editorial boards of many professional journals and is associate editor of Political Analysis. She was associate PI of the American National Election Study (2018-2021), served on the U.S. Census Bureau's Scientific Advisory Committee (2012-2018), and was a member of the American National Election Studies board (2010-2013, 2014-2017).
Hillygus has been recognized with numerous honors, awards and grants including the Henry and Bryna David Endowment award and lecture (National Academy of Sciences, 2020) and the Howard D. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University, 2019).
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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