First Person Projects

The problem is the metaphor

To understand the conditions for more meaningful civic participation, we…

Lessons (and Questions) from the Women’s March

Measuring the effectiveness of protest movements

The Problem of “Likely” Voters

At a recent gathering of AAPOR (American Association of Public Opinion Researchers), researchers from Harvard, Tufts and U. Mass-Amherst presented their paper, published in January, titled “The Elusive Likely Voter: Improving Electoral Predictions with More Informed Vote…

First Person Projects Weekly

Introducing our newsletter!

We’re excited to start sharing out from the incredible vault of research we’ve been assembling over the past year — and to do that in a manageable way, we’ve decided to launch a newsletter, First Person Projects Weekly. We’d…

A Quick Backgrounder on Studying Civic Engagement

What are our models for civic engagement and how do…

Politics may be national, but civic engagement is local

Why we think local context matters

Our Mission

We will foster a deeper and wider understanding of the context of civic participation at…

Our first Prototype Place: Coatesville, PA

Situated in Pennslvania’s highest income county, Chester County, along a portion of…