The Institute for Political Innovation

09/29/2023

Tired of the partisan gridlock we're seeing in Congress? Then it's time to change our elections. Our founder, Katherine Gehl, joins this week's episode of RealClearPolitics's The Take Away to explain more.

Katherine Gehl is the founder of The Institute for Political Innovation and co-author of "The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy," with Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter. She is the architect and evangelist of a new approa...

09/21/2023

If you've found yourself enjoying MLB games more this year, that's no accident. It's the result of a concerted effort by the league to modernize the game (and potentially save the sport). Our political system is in need of similar changes. campaign co-founders Katherine Gehl & Mike Zarren explain in The Messenger.

Politics is the only industry where we’re regularly told that less competition is better

03/15/2022

Business as a Force for Good presented by and . Join the conversation today @ 11:30 am ct with IPI's founder Katherine Gehl. Virtual Event registration available at https://lnkd.in/dtZXJ2Dp

03/10/2022

Join IPI this Sunday for a conversation on Innovating Our Democracy:
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2022/events/PP119705

01/20/2022

Good news: Alaska's supreme court rules in favor of Final-Four Voting. This marks the last legal hurdle. Alaskans will be the first voters to elect their congressional representatives with FFV.

Justices issued a brief written order Wednesday afternoon, with a longer legal explanation to come at a later date.

12/10/2021

"Final-Five Voting would make our election system more accessible to everyone, no matter their party."

Final-Five Voting would make the electoral system more accessible to everyone and strengthen representative democracy.

11/30/2021

Political polarization is a symptom of a systems problem. The good news is that we have the power to change it with political innovation. Find out how during this virtual event.

America has repeatedly managed to escape earlier periods of factional antipathy, insider domination, and gridlock through its openness to a practice both simple and powerful: political innovation.

11/19/2021

On Nov. 2, democracy reform was on the ballot in New York — three ballot measures, to be precise. Voters across the state had the chance to change how political districts are drawn, to further same-day voter registration, and to dump a vote-by-mail restriction. All three failed. Why?

On Nov. 2, democracy reform was on the ballot in New York — three ballot measures, to be precise. Voters across the state had the chance to change how political districts are drawn, to further same-day voter registration, and to dump a vote-by-mail restriction.

11/09/2021

IPI founder Katherine Gehl and NYU Stern School of Business professor Jonathan Haidt on why might be our best shot at saving American democracy. https://time.com/6112318/american-democracy-final-five-voting/

11/02/2021

Today is election day in NYC, so why was their new mayor chosen months ago? Read more in this opinion piece in TIME from IPI's founder, Katherine Gehl.

Too many general elections in the U.S. are meaningless. Here's a better system of voting that could strengthen our democracy

10/25/2021

Read the new report by UW-Madison College of Letters & Science and The University of Oklahoma on how is likely to impact communities of color.

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