Your text discusses voter apathy in detail. If you are a traditional aged college student, you and many of your friends have likely just earned the right to vote. How do they explanations in the text match up with the voting patterns of you and your peers? Do you see voter apathy around you? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
The following are suggested areas for students to address in their essays:
Explain political participation as a function of political socialization Outline the basic patterns of political engagement
Document dominant trends in voter turnout Link these trends and personal experience
Offer an explanation for how/why personal experience do or do not match up with nationwide trends in political participation
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