“Realizing a More Inclusive Electorate: Identity, Knowledge, Mobilization” is a brief that brings together findings from scholarship by the Haas Institute for Diversity and Democracy at UC Berkeley.
visit siteIt makes a series of evidence-based recommendations on how researchers, pollsters, political donors, and public officials can make their work supportive of broader and more inclusive civic participation. In particular, the brief encourages donors and philanthropists to invest in democracy itself by supporting organizations that carry out year-round civic engagement, leadership development, and capacity building in communities and demographic groups that partisan campaigns often pass over—most notably young people age 18-29, and many communities of color.