Analyst Institute
The Analyst Institute claims it "is a clearinghouse for evidence-based best practices in progressive voter contact. The Analyst Institute assists organizations in building testing into their voter contact efforts, especially with regard to high priority topics."
On Twitter: @AnalystInst
Beginnings
According to Sasha Issenberg the Analyst Institute is "a firm quietly founded in 2007 by AFL-CIO officials and liberal allies, which seeks to establish a set of empirically proven "best practices” for interacting with voters."
Early article in the New York Times, Nudge the Vote from Oct. 2010.
NPR, July 2012: Can Science Plant Brain Seeds That Make You Vote?
People
Current Analyst Institute people page.
- William Brannon, Director of Analytics
- Kevin Collins, Director of Research. Listed as one of The Influencers 50 by Campaigns and Elections in Oct. 2014.
- Daniel Gonzales, Training and Outreach
- Saul Cunow, Senior Research Manager
- Katherine Duch, Senior Research Manager
- Andrew Gall, a New Organizing Institute Fellow, agall@analystinstitute.org
- Jennifer Green, former Executive Director now with Civis Analytics.
- Tate Hausman, Director of Training and Outreach, @tatehausman. What an Honor: Leading the Analyst Institute.
- Josh Kalla, Analyst
- Lauren Keane, Director of Civic Engagement
- Terence Leong, Analyst, tleong@analystinstitute.org
- Joel Middleton, Senior Analyst, jmiddleton@analystinstitute.org
- Kathryn Poindexter, Training and Outreach
- Josh Rosmarin, Deputy Director of Analytics
- Meg Schwenzfeier, Analyst
- Aaron Strauss, Executive Director
Former Employees
- Josh Berezin, Former Director of Training and Outreach, now with Team Fulcrum.
- Jeffrey Ferguson, Former intern
- Todd Rogers, Former Executive Director (trogers@analystinstitute.org), Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Regina Schwartz, Former Deputy Director, rschwartz@analystinstitute.org.
Board of Directors
- Mike Podhorzer, Chair, AFL-CIO
- Hal Malchow
- Laura Quinn, Catalist
- Jeff Malachowsky
- Todd Rogers, Harvard Kennedy School
- Mark Steitz, TSD Communications
Affiliations are included for Board members for identification purposes only.
Known funding
Publications
Presentations
- Netroots Nation 2014: Field-tested best practices for GOTV in 2014, Josh Berezin. 2014.
- Netroots Nation participation, Regina Schwartz, 2012-2013.
Articles about Analyst Institute
- Academic ‘Dream Team’ Helped Obama’s Effort. New York Times, Nov. 2012.
- Liberal Stealth Groups Paved Obama Win, Newsmax, Nov. 2012.
- Webinar Recap: Get Your Voters to Commit to Vote.
- Obama's Not-So-Big-Data. Pacific Standard, Jan. 2014.
Related
- David W Nickerson and Todd Rogers. Do You Have a Voting Plan? Implementation Intentions, Voter Turnout, and Organic Plan Making, Association for Psychological Science, 21(2) 194-199, 2010.