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Habits from Home, Lessons from School: Influences on Youth Civic Engagement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2003

Molly W. Andolina
Affiliation:
assistant professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago. A previous survey director at the Pew Research Center, she has published work on public opinion and the Clinton scandal and Generation X in the 2000 election.
Krista Jenkins
Affiliation:
doctoral candidate in political science at Rutgers University.
Cliff Zukin
Affiliation:
professor of public policy and political science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University. He is also director of the Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers Poll, a quarterly survey of New Jersey residents. His teaching and research interests are in mass media, public opinion, and survey methodology.
Scott Keeter
Affiliation:
professor of government and politics at George Mason University and associate director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. His publications include research on public opinion, political knowledge, religion and politics, and survey methodology.

Abstract

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TEACHER SYMPOSIUM
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© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

*This research was sponsored by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, which bears no responsibility for the analysis presented here. The authors would also like to thank Beth Donovan, who edited portions of this essay.

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