Aidan Connaughton

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Aidan Connaughton
Ph.D. Student in Government
CAPS Fellow, 2022-23
CAPS Graduate Assistant

Aidan Connaughton is a PhD student in Government studying local politics, accountability, civic engagement, and non-voting political behavior. He plans to study how the long-term decline in civic engagement and social trust has affected outcomes for state and local policymaking and how and why states and municipalities have taken action to revitalize civic engagement.