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Sep 27, 2024
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PSC 401Q - Generational Politics and Policy (3 units)
Age’s effect on opinion formation, voting, and selected public policies, such as health, retirement housing transportation.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to evaluate the effects of U.S. population mobility to large metropolitan areas and away from rural areas, combined with generational replacement, affects partisan (party) identification and elections.
2. Students will be able to articulate the effects of intergenerational voting patterns on development of state and Federal health and retirement policy.
3. Students will be able to explain how the geographical distribution of wealth affects the pattern of Federal-state wealth transfers.
4. Students will be able to analyze the effects of differences in state tax bases and tax structures effect age denominated policy performance.
5. Students will be able to appraise how age driven population dynamics and voting patterns affects Federal and State revenue and budgetary policy.
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