Demos (US think tank)
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Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action is a U.S. based research and policy center that was founded in 2000. According to a wide variety of media reports,[citation needed] Demos has growing influence on the North American debate about election reform and economic security, with a particular emphasis on the development of a broad, stable future middle class in the US.
According to their website[1], Demos maintains a non-partisan role in their policy change and reform work to revitalize American democracy--efforts which, according to their publications, include opening up the electoral process to encourage high voter turnout, addressing financial instability in American households, engaging a public dialogue on ethics and values related to democracy and the economy, and developing a shared national vision of effective government.
Demos operates through four programs:
- Democracy -- http://www.demos.org/page13.cfm
- Economic Opportunity -- http://www.demos.org/page19.cfm
- Public Works: The Demos Center for the Public Sector -- http://www.demos.org/page76.cfm
- Long Range Challenges: Fellows Program, Demos Forum event series, Building Movement Project, Inequality -- http://www.demos.org/page21.cfm
Miles Rapoport has been President of Demos since 2001.
1n 2006, Demos signed a partnership agreement with the National Voting Rights Institute.
