Millennial Voting Agenda: Partisan Preferences and Party Platforms in the 2016 Presidential Election
Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics and International Relations
Reader 1
Vanessa Tyson
Reader 2
William Barndt
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Abstract
I contribute to research pertaining to young voters by comparing the 2016 agenda of young people (based on existing polling) with Republican and Democratic Party platforms. By analyzing party platforms in the context of Millennial voters, this thesis attempts to determine the effectiveness to which the Democratic and Republican platforms reflect young people’s interests on three key topics: education, terrorism and homeland security, and racism. I argue that the Democratic Party’s progressive platform offers more substantial solutions to Millennial concerns than the GOP. By catering to young voter’s progressive, pro-big government, anti-racist agenda, the Democratic Party may one day bolster a formidable coalition of support for future elections.
Recommended Citation
Carroll, Annie, "Millennial Voting Agenda: Partisan Preferences and Party Platforms in the 2016 Presidential Election" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 942.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/942
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
