Our Mission For Founding Father John Adams, a representative body should resemble a ‘portrait’ of the people. They should ‘think, feel, reason, and act’ like the people they represent. In other words, he believed that all representation should actually be inclusive. Since 2014, CRI has investigated ways to better accomplish his singular vision.
Based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, CRI is an independent think tank focused exclusively on the problems of inclusive representation.
The principal researchers are Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, David King , ex-NASA scientist James D’Angelo and Boston College professor Brent Ranalli . They are the first scholars to claim that the surge in 1970s sunshine (legislative transparency) is driving inequality, partisanship, spending, police immunity, climate change, incarceration, the debt, etc.