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The Generation Gap on Government
Why and How the Millennial Generation Is the Most Pro-GovernmentGeneration and What This Means or Our Future
Guy Molyneux and Ruy Teixeira, with John Whaley July 2010
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The Generation Gapon Government
Why and How the Millennial Generation Is the MostPro-Government Generation and What This Meansor Our Future
Guy Molyneux and Ruy Teixeira, with John Whaley July 2010
Based on a nationwide survey conducted by Hart Research Associates or theCenter or American Progress and its Doing What Works project
This publication is a product o CAP’s Doing What Works project, which promotes government reorm toeciently allocate scarce resources and achieve greater results or the American people. Doing What Worksspecically has three key objectives: (1) eliminating or redesigning misguided spending programs and taxexpenditures ocused on priority areas such as health care, energy, and education; (2) improving govern-ment’s ability to execute by streamlining management and strengthening operations in the areas o humanresources, inormation technology, and procurement; and (3) building a oundation or smarter decisionmaking by enhancing transparency, perormance measurement, and evaluation. Doing What Works publica-tions and products can be viewed at http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/doing_what_works. Thisproject is undertaken in partnership with the Rockeeller Foundation’s Campaign or American Workers.
 
 1 Executive summary 4 Introduction and key indings 9 A generation gap in conidence in the ederal government15 Better government, not smaller 20 Why are Millennials more positive about government? 35 Making government work  49 Appendix A
Survey methodology
 51 Appendix B
 The Doing What Works survey o attitudes toward governmentand government reorm
79 About the authors81 About Hart Research Associates81 Acknowledgements
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