The Importance of Increasing Turnout in Congressional Primaries
Higher voter turnout in those primaries would help prevent polarization and encourage a well-functioning legislature.
Social Issues - Articles
Asking the Small Questions to Support Big Scale
Tackling the nitty-gritty operational details of scale before you start can ease growing pains—three lessons from the East Africa-based nonprofit Educate!.
Impact Innovation: Closing Health Inequities Through Design
Reverse and frugal innovation approaches have their limits when it comes to health impact for the poor. We need more ways to provide high-quality, affordable products to low-income people.
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Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
In Democratic by Design, Gabriel Metcalf looks at how small-scale, self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business can scale up to effect widespread social change.
Do We Actually Want Higher Youth Voter Turnout?
Young people can be more engaged in politics, but major institutions must actually want that to happen.
Making Good Ideas Go Viral
A less-traveled path to education reform: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is catalyzing three social forces to create an epidemic of best practice.
Translating Research into Action
There is no doubt that social change efforts are accelerated by data, but investing in high-quality, cutting-edge research alone isn’t enough to produce solutions. Funders and researchers have to invest more in translating research into action.
Increase Turnout by Informing Voters about Policy Differences
More people would vote (and a more diverse group of people would vote) if they knew more about candidates’ fundamental policy positions.
The Economic Benefits of Gender Parity
Women need to be equal partners in society for them to be equal partners in work.
Getting Out the Vote Is Tougher Than You Think
Recent randomized field trials provide evidence that most get out the vote mobilization efforts have very modest effects on voter turnout, much less than previously thought.