Overview
Description
Age’s effect on opinion formation, voting, and selected public policies, such as health, retirement housing and transportation.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- 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.
- articulate the effects of intergenerational voting patterns on development of state and Federal health and retirement policy.
- explain how the geographical distribution of wealth affects the pattern of Federal-state wealth transfers.
- analyze the effects of differences in state tax bases and tax structures effect age denominated policy performance.
- appraise how age driven population dynamics and voting patterns affects Federal and State revenue and budgetary policy.