Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of CIRCLE, and Peter Levine, Tisch College associate dean, co-author this opinion piece outlining the benefits of aligning local and federal elections to even-numbered years, which include fostering higher and more diverse voter turnout.
This article references Cooperative Election Study data on the 2020 elections and the 2022 midterms, which found notable differences between younger voters and the general electorate on key issues like the environment, abortion and immigration
Tisch College is the leading, non-partisan research center on young people’s civic learning and political engagement, and today we are announcing an important transition that will strengthen our work, outreach and impact.