Sara Suzuki
@sara-suzuki.com
Senior Researcher @ CIRCLE { civic engagement, critical consciousness, youth vote, QuantCrit, movement building } Building a more just democracy through co-creating knowledge and power with young people https://sara-suzuki.com
New global poll shows younger Gen Z men are more likely to think we've gone "too far" in promoting women's rights (49% in the U.S.). Given that young American men don't hold particularly extreme gender views, I suspect a key reason is earning power, perceived and felt. www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/...
Excited to share CIRCLE’s new report on political homes for youth! What was your political home as a young person? What political homes do young people around you have today? circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...
Building Political Homes for Youth
Authors: Sara Suzuki, Seona Maskara, Ruby Belle Booth, Alberto Medina Contributors: Sarah Burnham, Eva Kroh
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Only 1% thought the government should prioritize "cost of living" in 2018. That number has now shot up to 1 in 3. And among all age groups, youth were most likely to prioritize housing costs with almost 1 in 4 saying it is what the government needs to focus on in this new year. buff.ly/CVArMmW
‼️ Young voters powered Mamdani to victory and TURNED OUT in Virginia and New Jersey! Full analysis here: circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...
Wow the Census's data tables and MDAT tool are both not loading right now because of the shutdown...
Ok, but this equates turnout with “turning out registered voters” as every data source used except the Pew data only had registered voters. More unregistered nonvoters would have voted Harris than Trump. Source: CES 2024 data.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.New data suggests that Donald Trump would have done even better in 2024 with higher voter turnout. Here's what Pew research released Thursday shows. nyti.ms/44xQsDQ
🧵 New research reveals 1.5 million North Carolinians are missing during election time, in part because NC has become one of the hardest states to vote in. The solution? Remove the barriers. Empower voters. Read our new report with @scsjofficial.bsky.social: demos.nyc/nc-missing-v...
Who Are North Carolina's 1.5 Million Missing Voters? | Demos
In this report, Dēmos and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose a crisis in North Carolina's democracy and its voter rolls, and share commonsense policy solutions to fix it.
demos.nyc
My latest piece @prri.org , which helps explain how our politics have become so gendered. open.substack.com/pub/prri/p/o...
Our Increasingly Gendered Politics
Unpacking the political dynamics behind conservatives' commitment to gendered hierarchies
open.substack.com
“young voters have not become more likely to identify as conservative…Gen Z might not be the disaster for Democrats that Shor and others are predicting. The 2024 election might have been an anomalous event in which young people’s deep dissatisfaction with the economy…drove them to want change.”
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last yr."The best available evidence suggests that the youth-vote shift in 2024 was more a one-off event than an ideological realignment," Jean M. Twenge writes:
Ok, but this equates turnout with “turning out registered voters” as every data source used except the Pew data only had registered voters. More unregistered nonvoters would have voted Harris than Trump. Source: CES 2024 data.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.New data suggests that Donald Trump would have done even better in 2024 with higher voter turnout. Here's what Pew research released Thursday shows. nyti.ms/44xQsDQ
Dig into a brand new study from CIRCLE and Protect Democracy on Gen Z’s views of democracy—both as an ideal and how it is in reality. See what underlies these attitudes so we can understand what it takes to bring all youth into the urgent fight for democracy. protectdemocracy.org/work/how-doe...
How does Gen Z really feel about democracy? - Protect Democracy
A new survey offers three profiles of how young Americans perceive democracy, engage with civic life, and see their role in shaping the future.
protectdemocracy.org
New Amicus episode: @dahlialithwick.bsky.social talks with @wendyweiser.bsky.social about everything that's wrong with the executive order on voting and elections. Weiser calls it "completely unlawful" and "disastrous." slate.com/podcasts/ami...
Think All This Gets Fixed With The Midterms? Think Again
The midterms will be too late to tackle Trump’s extraordinary attempt at restricting voting.
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CIRCLE and our incredible partners at Protect Democracy started this important research about Gen Z's attitudes toward democracy in September 2024. Already back then, it was clear to us how important it was to dispel myths and generalizations about young people's relationship to democracy.
Protect Democracy@protectdemocracy.org · last yr.RSVP Today - Hear from youth civic leaders, researchers, and pro-democracy advocates about new findings into how young Americans see their role in shaping the future plus how to strengthen their participation in our democratic processes. protdem.org/RegisterVoic...
My conclusion from dinner last night with the TBR crew (The Black Response, Cambridge) is that I need to read David Graeber. Which book should I start with?
Wonderful working with my good friend & colleague Dr. Elena Maker Castro on this piece! LPTA is hard to do but can uncover diversity in developmental experiences. The prevalence of stress and anxiety among those who stayed "Liberated Actors" is a very important finding. doi.org/10.1037/dev0...
"...among the biggest errors many democracies have made...is to view individual dignity primarily through the prism of political freedom without being sufficiently attentive to the indignity of corruption, inequality, and a lack of economic opportunity." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How Democracy Can Win
The right way to counter autocracy.
foreignaffairs.com
“Democracy is not in decline. Rather, it is under attack.” In a 2023 essay, Samantha Power made the case for a new approach to democracy promotion—one that tackles corruption, inequality, and the rise of digital authoritarianism.
How Democracy Can Win
The right way to counter autocracy.
foreignaffairs.com
What lies ahead is not fascist or single-party dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but the incumbent’s abuse of power tilts the playing field against the opposition. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
foreignaffairs.com
The small city of Reading in central Pennsylvania is around 70 percent Latino. In 2024, it shifted toward Trump by a staggering net 16 points. I spent some time trying to figure out why that happened. The result is this piece. I hope you'll check it out: newrepublic.com/article/1908...
This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats’ Latino Woes
Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back.
newrepublic.com
The most common religious hate crimes in the United States are against Jews, followed by hate crimes targeting Muslims. Sikhs also experience more hate crimes than Christians in the U.S., though Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs together make up a much smaller share of the population than Christians.
Melissa Deckman@melissadeckman.bsky.social · 2y agoGlad to see PRRI's Census of American Religion used in this new CSM piece on which religious groups are actually facing hate crimes in the US. www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...
Glad to see PRRI's Census of American Religion used in this new CSM piece on which religious groups are actually facing hate crimes in the US. www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...
Trump decries ‘anti-Christian bias.’ Which religions are targeted in US?
With President Trump creating a task force to stamp out anti-Christian bias, what does religious discrimination in the United States look like today?
csmonitor.com
Wow. This is such a cool search tool. Well done, @gristnews.bsky.social. grist.org/accountabili...
Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
grist.org
If you are a staff member in #HigherEd what resources would be helpful for you in this moment? What do you need?
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
Essential read from @franciswilkinson.bsky.social at Bloomberg, featuring a great assessment of PRRI's new 50-state report on Christian Nationalism. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
MAGA’s Driving Force Is Christian Nationalism
Evangelical votes have mattered to the GOP for decades. But not like this — and not with such extreme views.
bloomberg.com
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🔎 🔎 🔎 Insights for movement leaders from our latest poll: circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...
Young People and the 2024 Election: Struggling, Disconnected, and Dissatisfied
Authors: Alberto Medina, Kelly Siegel-Stechler, Sara Suzuki Contributors: Ruby Belle Booth, Katie Hilton At a Glance: Main Findings Multiple Barriers: Some youth were ignored by campaigns or...
circle.tufts.edu
The newly elected DNC Vice Chair David Hogg has insights on young voters that are quite on point. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
David Hogg Knows Why Democrats Lost Young Voters
The Parkland survivor discusses his DNC vice chair campaign, the “failed political system,” and how Democrats can win back America’s youth.
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