Dev Chandra and Robert Reynolds

Dev Chandra is a second-year MPP student at the Kennedy School and the careers chair at the Harvard Behavioral Insights Student Group. His master’s thesis investigates opportunities to use behavioral science to boost voter turnout. Robert Reynolds is a behavioral scientist who designs researched-based, relational voter turnout techniques. He is Co-Founder of VoteTripling.org, a non-profit that advises political campaigns and voter turnout organizations, and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School.

The three barriers that inhibit non-activist Democrats from getting their friends to vote

Guest contributors Dev Chandra and Robert Reynolds explore why non-activist Democrats have trouble mobilizing their friends to vote. Through original qualitative and quantitative research, the authors use behavioral science to investigate this trend and address implications for Democratic strategy in the upcoming elections. In 2018, Democrats piloted new methods aimed at sparking liberals to get […]