This seminar will explore how caregiving responsibilities (e.g. childcare, elder care, sibling care, and the anticipation of those responsibilities) structure political engagement and policy attitudes, We analyze how caregiving responsibilities and expertise affects public opinion, political participation, issue advocacy and political ambition. We consider caregiving experiences across diverse segments of the population and explore whether (and if so, how) caregivers, whose time and resources are consumed by their caretaking responsibilities, are still able to make space for political engagement.
