Using COVID-19 and Connecticut’s Primary Elections to Teach Political Science Concepts

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Connecticut’s 2020 primary election is a great example of electoral politics to include in a variety of classroom lessons. For public policy courses, it showcases how focusing events, defined as “an event that is sudden; relatively uncommon; can …