Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics

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Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Opening reception: 4:30-5:00 Talk: 5:00-6:30

“Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics”

with Jennifer Lawless

Americas Lawless_poster_Final_revDr. Jennifer Lawless is professor of government at American University. She focuses on gender politics in the United States and will discuss the finding of her most recent book, Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off From Politics, which analyzes young people's opinions about contemporary politics and their political ambitions (or lack of it).

More information about the book can be found here: http://www.american.edu/spa/wpi/running-from-office.cfm

Sponsor: CSWS’s Americas Research Interest Group (Americas RIG), CLLAS, Department of Political Science, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and the College of Arts and Sciences Program Grant.