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Big Data for Democracy

Tisch College has one of the biggest research teams in the U.S. devoted to understanding the challenges to our democracy—and the opportunities to build and sustain it. We use that scholarship to inform our own programming at Tufts and to drive national conversations about voting and elections, the role of citizens, the health of democratic institutions, and the power of young people.

Find Your Civic Pathway

At Tisch College, every Tufts student—whatever their field of study, school or degree program—has a pathway to civic engagement.

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Find Your Civic Pathway

At Tisch College, every Tufts student—whatever their field of study, school or degree program—has a pathway to civic engagement.

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The truth behind Trump’s biggest illegal voter claim

Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner defends data from the Cooperative Election Study (of which he is co-principal investigator), which informed a 2014 article claiming that large populations of non-citizens voted in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Schaffner notes “it’s not possible to draw statistical conclusions from a relatively small number of survey participants.”
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Get In Loser, We're Going Voting: How Young Women Are Shifting Left

Abby Kiesa of CIRCLE comments on increased civic engagement among young women saying, “The last presidential election, we saw young women turn out at rates higher than their peers who identify as men in every race and ethnicity for which we had data.” Multiple CIRCLE studies are referenced.

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