Independent Social Science Research

To Explain the Future

We believe that understanding the social world requires more than identifying causes. CERSP brings together scientific description, causal reasoning, and prediction to better understand democracy, inequality, and how people imagine their futures.

Our Programs

We combine social science and machine-learning prediction to understand how people see their world, how societies change, and how we can better explain both.

WINDS

Democracy in the Future

Predict-to-Explain

The future of AI is missing several important democratic inputs, none as important as the voice of women.

We combine survey research and machine learning to identify patterns in democratic attitudes and anticipate political change.

We use the successes and failures of prediction to scrutinize theories, improve measurement, and develop more convincing explanations of the social world.