Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Baby Boomers, Millennials, Generation Z And The Power Of The Vote

To vote or not to vote that is the question.

Matters of Policy & PoliticsMarch 22, 2018
Area 45: Baby Boomers, Millennials, Generation Z And The Power Of The Vote

By the 2020 election, America’s “millennial” class will replace Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest age-bloc of voters. David Davenport, a Hoover Institution research fellow specializing in constitution federalism and Americans politics and law, discusses what it will take to get a cynical under-35 crowd to the polls and, in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, whether the even younger “Generation Z” will emerge as a political force.

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