Democratic Innovations Undergraduate Researchers

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Democratic Innovations has created a grant program for undergraduate students to conduct projects under the supervision of Yale faculty members. Coordinated by ISPS faculty fellow Joshua Kalla, the program’s first student projects are:

The Polis project was launched by Matthew Meyers, ’24. He has  passed on the data and responsibility for completing and building upon the project to Beata Fylkner’26 and member of the Democratic Innovations Student Research Group that Meyers co-founded.

ISPS also funded Kyle Thomas Ramos to participate in the Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp. He produced a paper on revitalizing the Government Accountability Office’s power to enforce the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.