Highlights lessons for academics and activists!

Shout out to @arielrwhite.bsky.social @allipatter.bsky.social @naomisugie.bsky.social #GrassrootsLeadership #MNJusticeResearchCenter

Read the report here:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/diwto...

Made possible by support from @arnoldventures.bsky.social @publicagenda.bsky.social & @ispsyale.bsky.social

The #ExpandingEngagementLab is stoked to build on this to learn how engage other chronic non-voters!

expandingengagement.org 9/9

This work was completed in partnership with #GrassrootsLeadership who were integral to making the project happen and who carry on the work -- to that end, the public facing report sets out lessons learned for both academics and organizers 8/9

www.grassrootsleadership.org/vote

But mailers are expensive & impractical & are we even reaching the pop of interest? Does this strategy work if we go straight to justice impacted people themselves?

YES: An on-the-ground relational organizing experiment is encouraging (but v challenging to study, see the paper for details) 7/9

Can we find the active social ties, send them a mailer asking them to register their loved one, and would they do it?

YES! Even people who are not already active organizers can be prompted to get their loved ones to register: 6/9

Would mobilization by loved ones even work if the person in question doesn't value voting?

YES! Qualitative evidence suggests that social ties have lots of tools available to them to engage even skeptical voters 5/9

Are there even any such ties?

YES! Mapping relationships across admin records suggests many system impacted people are connected to others who are active voters... 4/9

So we thought, let's see if we can find them, contact them, enlist their help in mobilizing their people, and test how well it works! (we're ambitious like that 😉)

But would it even work? System impacted people are often surrounded by other non-voters who have high skepticism of the state... 3/9

The working paper & public report synthesize lessons learned from a suite of 2024 projects.

We ask: How can system impacted people be (re)incorporated into electoral politics?

We argue: The politically active loved ones of system impacted people are powerful mobilizers in their communities! 2/9

Punchline: diversity matters! in the simulation, diversity on the bench reduces sentence length for Black defendants

get ‘em Nick!!

He uses and innovative chat experiment to assess whether having diverse colleagues changes the decision making of dominant group members

She has maps! Keep your eye on her, she’s just getting started #hookem

they do this in an effort to revitalize their communities,
but their interests are out of step with long term residents

Drawing on an array of admin data that allows her to isolate household effects, she finds that gentrifiers move into their new neighborhoods and vote more in local elections

great pol psych work from one of our best, look out for her this job market season!!!

and increases sympathy for more conservative voters in the group while decreasing it for marginalized outgroups…