Methodology The GfK Group (formerly Knowledge Networks) conducted a study of young adults on political issues on behalf of the Harvard University Institute of Politics. The goal of the project was to collect 2,000 completed interviews with KN panelists 18 ...

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At Harvard’s Institute of Politics, a living memorial to President Kennedy, we work to celebrate the President’s legacy of public service every day. In the fall of 2013, the Institute worked to showcase how our students and others honor this legacy in our ...

About The Poll Conceived by two Harvard undergraduate students during the winter of 1999, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service began in 2000 as a national survey of 18- to 24- y ...

I was a United States Senator for a day at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute Senate Simulation. I even had the name placard to prove it: “Senator Gabe Gladstein, Democrat from North Dakota.” Almost 100 other students, Harvard Kennedy School graduate student ...

Above: watch the full Forum conversation with Finberg, moderated by Harvard Kennedy School Dean Doug Elmendorf “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”  When President John F. Kennedy spoke these historic words dur ...

By Peter Westmacott, IOP Resident Fellow and former British Ambassador to the United States. Originally published in the Sunday Times of London here. Following the announcement of the referendum to decide whether we stay in the EU, there has been blanket ...

I still remember the first time I voted- it was the 2008 primary and I was a political science major religiously following the presidential election. I entered the voting booth exceptionally confident in my choice for president, senator, and congressman. ...

Panelists Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Michael Ignatieff, the Edward Murrow Professor of the Practice of Politics and the Press at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, joined moderator Jacqueline Bhabha ...

MILLENNIALS: RUNNING FOR OFFICE, SERVING IN OFFICE Winthrop House Junior Common Room, 32 Mill Street, Cambridge, MA The Honorable Michael Blake Assemblymember, New York State Assembly The Honorable Pete Buttigieg ‘04 Mayor, South Bend, IN;                ...