September 22, 2000

Selling Students on the Elections of 2000

By JOHN LYMAN MASON and MICHAEL NELSON

One of the great joys of teaching "Introduction to American Government" is that every fourth fall, you get to present it during a national election. If there is ever a time when students entering their first political-science course are lit up with excitement about politics, it's then.

Or so we thought until this year.

Several polls of young people, including college students, are finding that they are detached not just from the parties and candidates, but from politics itself.

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