WebsiteBipartisan Policy Center

Bipartisan Policy Center Governance/Elections Resources

2026

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/policy-area/governance/elections/

What It Is: A policy hub, led by Director Wren Orey, working to strengthen public trust in elections and ensure secure, fully funded, and continually improved election systems,. that publishes ongoing research, testimony, and explainers on election administration, security, and reform, including advisory groups such as the Task Force on Elections and the Election Workforce Advisory Council.

Why It Matters: The project spans practical, current questions — like its recent recommendations on the EAC's 2026 Election Administration and Voting Survey — giving business leaders a running, non-partisan source on the current state and any changes in election law and administration.

How to Use It: Subscribe to BPC's Governance Policy Newsletter or bookmark the hub to track new issue briefs (e.g., the 2026 Midterms: Key Dates and Events) relevant to internal planning around election-year civic engagement.

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ToolConvergence Center for Policy Resolution

Convergence Compass e-Learning Program

Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, Ongoing

Convergence Compass is an online learning program for business, government, higher education and civic actors that teaches the psychology of division, dialogue strategies, and collaborative problem-solving. Developed from the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution's innovative methods, it equips participants to build trust, bridge divides, engage constructively on contentious issues, design effective processes —even when stakeholders hold strongly divergent views.

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OpenSecrets.org

Center for Responsive Politics, Ongoing

OpenSecrets is a nonpartisan, nonprofit transparency platform that tracks money in U.S. politics, compiling and analyzing campaign finance, lobbying, outside spending, and personal finance data for politicians. It offers searchable tools and educational resources that reveal how money flows around elections and policymaking, supporting evidence-based oversight by media, investors, employees, and the public.

ArticleCenter for Political Accountability (CPA)

The Barbara & Morris Pearl 527 Interactive Database

Center for Political Accountability, Ongoing

This interactive database tracks corporate and individual contributions to 527 political organizations, offering transparency into issue-advocacy groups, political committees, and their funders. It enables stakeholders to analyze donation patterns, compare companies, and evaluate alignment between stated values, lobbying positions, and political spending, supporting stronger governance and oversight of political influence.

ReportCommittee for Economic Development (The Conference Board)

A Stable Democracy at 250: Trusted Elections as the Foundation Report

2026

What It Is: A 2026 solutions brief in the Sustaining Capitalism series summarizing why free and fair elections matter for democracy and a stable economy. Includes a comprehensive Report, Infographic and Elections Toolkit with background, recommendations and best practices for business leaders and election administration.

Why It Matters: Outlines how a secure, credible, and accessible electoral system builds the business confidence companies need to operate with trust in governance and engage in shaping policy. Also provides background on the declining public confidence ahead of the 2026 midterms and the need to ensure strong administration, understanding of federal, state and local roles and information integrity.

How to Use It: Consider reviewing the Report and using the accompanying Elections Toolkit to take three actions: 1) Proactively encourage employee and community voting in a nonpartisan way; 2) Support election administration by recruiting poll workers and offering flexible scheduling; and 3) Share trusted, official information to counter any election-related mis- and disinformation.

ReportCentre for Future Generations (CFG)

AI Preparedness: Robust Policy Options for Europe

David Janku et al, 2026

This report outlines policy frameworks for strengthening Europe’s preparedness and governance capacity in response to rapid advances in artificial intelligence. It examines regulatory coordination, democratic oversight, geopolitical competitiveness, and institutional resilience, arguing that AI governance must balance innovation, public trust, and long-term societal stability across economic and political systems.

WebsiteAllSides

2026

What It Is: A media bias-rating and balanced-news platform that displays the same story as covered from left, center, and right sources side by side, curated by an explicitly multipartisan editorial team using published bias-rating methodology.

Why It Matters: By exposing bias and showing how outlets frame the same story differently, AllSides gives readers an evidence-based way to evaluate information rather than relying on one source's framing .

How to Use It: Use the Bias Checker or Media Bias Chart to vet sources before sharing internally or point employees or students to the Headline Roundups as a media-literacy habit.

ArticlePolicyLink

An Explainer: How the 13th and 14th Amendments Serve as Pillars for a Nation That Governs for All

2026

This explainer outlines the historical and constitutional significance of the 13th and 14th Amendments, emphasizing their role in establishing equal protection, citizenship, and inclusive governance principles. It connects constitutional protections to contemporary debates around equity, participation, and democratic legitimacy in American civic and institutional life.

ArticleSubstack

Authoritarianism as Investor Risk

Jed Emerson, 2026

This commentary argues that rising authoritarianism represents a material risk to investors by undermining rule of law, regulatory stability, and democratic institutions. It explores how political systems influence capital markets and suggests investors and companies must incorporate governance and democracy risks into investment analysis.

WebsiteBipartisan Policy Center

Bipartisan Policy Center Governance/Elections Resources

2026

What It Is: A policy hub, led by Director Wren Orey, working to strengthen public trust in elections and ensure secure, fully funded, and continually improved election systems,. that publishes ongoing research, testimony, and explainers on election administration, security, and reform, including advisory groups such as the Task Force on Elections and the Election Workforce Advisory Council.

Why It Matters: The project spans practical, current questions — like its recent recommendations on the EAC's 2026 Election Administration and Voting Survey — giving business leaders a running, non-partisan source on the current state and any changes in election law and administration.

How to Use It: Subscribe to BPC's Governance Policy Newsletter or bookmark the hub to track new issue briefs (e.g., the 2026 Midterms: Key Dates and Events) relevant to internal planning around election-year civic engagement.

WebsiteBusiness for America

Business for America Election Resources

2026

What It Is: A curated resource page offering seven concrete strategies for building a "voter culture" at work, plus links to five vetted digital tools — including: BallotReady, Civic Alliance, Motivote, Time To Vote, and VoteAmerica — that companies can deploy to support employee voter turnout.

Why It Matters: BFA grounds its case in concrete workplace data: work commitments are consistently cited as a top barrier to voting, while "my employer" ranks among the most trusted institutions, well above government and media. That combination gives Legitimacy to employer-led civic engagement — a trusted messenger removing a documented practical barrier, rather than a company taking a political stance.

How to Use It: Pick one or two of the five listed tools: and pair with BFA's 7 strategies to build a simple internal civic engagement plan ahead of the midterms.

WebsiteAmerican Sustainable Business Network (ASBN)

Businesses United in Leading Democracy

2026

Businesses United in Leading Democracy is a coalition initiative encouraging companies to support democratic participation, civic trust, and institutional resilience through nonpartisan engagement. The initiative promotes collaboration among businesses committed to protecting democratic norms, strengthening civic systems, and encouraging responsible corporate leadership in periods of political polarization and democratic strain.

ToolAnthropic

Claude's Constitution

2026

What It Is: Anthropic's published governance document defining its AI model's intended values, priorities, and behavioral constraints — including a stated hierarchy (safety, ethics, guideline compliance, helpfulness) and explicit "hard constraints" the model must never cross, released publicly under a Creative Commons license.

Why It Matters: The document operationalizes Accountability and Transparency by publishing the company's internal decision-making priorities and self-imposed limits in detail, including an explicit commitment to avoiding "problematic concentrations of power" and preserving checks and balances — one of the clearest corporate self-governance parallels to CPR's core concerns, applied to a company's product rather than its political conduct.

How to Use It: Use as a case study in corporate self-governance and voluntary constitutional commitments — a company publicly codifying its own guardrails ahead of regulation — useful for comparing against other governance frameworks like B Corp certification or a corporate lobbying policy.

ToolAnthropic

Claude's Constitution

2026

What It Is: Claude's Constitution is Anthropic's published governance document defining its AI model's intended values, priorities, and behavioral constraints — including a stated hierarchy (safety, ethics, guideline compliance, helpfulness) and explicit "hard constraints" the model must never cross, released publicly under a Creative Commons license.

Why It Matters: The document references specific risks and needed guardrails to avoid harming important societal structures and protect against “problematic concentrations of power” as well as the “loss of human epistemic autonomy.” This provides useful guidance in applying the Responsibility Principle.

How to Use It: Use to identify possible unintended societal impacts, which can inform companies as they weigh in on AI policy. Use as a case study in corporate self-governance.

ArticleHarvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Emerging Governance Safeguards Against US Political Risk

Stephen M. Davis, 2026

This article argues that US political risk is no longer an abstract concern for boards and investors – it is an immediate governance challenge. Specifically, it explores how escalating polarization, regulatory volatility, and election-related instability require enhanced governance safeguards to protect enterprise value – and proposes two tools that can help.

Why this resource matters
It outlines the rationale for embedding CPR in the governance of public affairs and recommends Third Side Strategies’ Principled Influence: A Guide to Strengthening Public Affairs Practices in Polarized Environments. (NOTE: This article is authored by Stephen M. Davis, a member of The CPR Hub’s Board of Advisors.)

ToolB Lab

GACA 1.1: How to Write a Responsible Lobbying Policy

2026

This guidance document from B Labs outlines how companies can develop responsible lobbying policies that align with new B Corp Standards, based on their stated business purpose. It provides practical recommendations on policy alignment, oversight, disclosure, and accountability mechanisms to ensure political influence activities align with the responsible lobbying policy.

ReportThe Cato Institute

How Viktor Orbán’s Hungary Eroded the Rule of Law and Free Markets

Johan Norberg, 2026

This analysis examines how Hungary’s political system under Viktor Orbán weakened democratic institutions, judicial independence, and competitive markets through centralized political and economic control. It explores the relationship between authoritarian governance, market distortion, and declining institutional accountability, highlighting implications for investors, businesses, and democratic stability.

BookEric Ries

Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great

Eric Ries, 2026

What It Is: A 2026 book by Eric Ries, founder of the Lean Startup movement and the Long-Term Stock Exchange, arguing that companies drift from their mission not through bad actors but through poorly designed governance systems — ownership structures, incentives, and decision-making rules that that lack the structural integrity to defend against internal and external pressures.

Why It Matters: Ries reframes governance as a design problem rather than a compliance exercise, arguing that Accountability to the mission has to be built into a company's structure — charters, voting rights, incentive design — rather than added on after mission drift has already happened. This same lens can be applied to Public Affairs Governance, as drift here is especially damaging to credibility.

How to Use It: Use it to prompt discussions with boards and founders about potential mission drift, and timely redesign of governance structures – including Public Affairs Engagement Policies.

ReportBipartisan Policy Center

Parties and Electoral Reform: Insights from Political Operatives

J.D. Rackey & Lily Kincannon, 2026

What It Is: A July 2026 report based on 12 in-depth interviews with Republican and Democratic political operatives (analyzed via qualitative coding), examining how party insiders actually view their role in primaries and which electoral reforms they believe would or wouldn't strengthen political parties.

Why It Matters: The findings are concrete and counterintuitive: every operative interviewed said party organizations exist to win elections, not to shape ideology, and most were skeptical that reforms like ranked-choice voting or nonpartisan primaries would meaningfully improve trust — favoring instead reforms that strengthen parties' own fundraising and organizing capacity. That's directly useful for Legitimacy-focused conversations about electoral reform, grounding them in how the system actually operates rather than how reformers assume it operates.

How to Use It: Use as a primer before your government-affairs or corporate PAC team engages with any electoral-reform-adjacent policy conversation in the states where you operate, to understand how party insiders themselves are likely to respond to proposed changes.

ReportBipartisan Policy Center

Parties and Electoral Reform: Insights from Political Operatives

J.D. Rackey & Lily Kincannon, 2026

What It Is: A July 2026 Bipartisan Policy Center report by J.D. Rackey and Lily Kincannon, based on 12 in-depth interviews with Republican and Democratic political operatives (analyzed via qualitative coding), examining how party insiders actually view their role in primaries and which electoral reforms they believe would or wouldn't strengthen political parties.

Why It Matters: The findings are concrete and counterintuitive: every operative interviewed said party organizations exist to win elections, not to shape ideology, and most were skeptical that reforms like ranked-choice voting or nonpartisan primaries would meaningfully improve trust — favoring instead reforms that strengthen parties' own fundraising and organizing capacity. Useful in considering the Responsibility Principle and support for constitutional democracy..

How to Use It: Consider these perspectives in discussions with government-affairs or corporate PAC team about electoral-reform policy priorities or positions.

ArticleJournal of Consumer Marketing

Posting and Politics: The Effects of Corporate Political Advocacy on User-Generated Content

Rong Huang; Jeffrey Wiebe; Ryan Heath, 2026

This study analyzes how corporate political advocacy influences online consumer behavior and user-generated content. It examines how political positioning by brands shapes engagement, sentiment, and digital discourse, highlighting the reputational and relational consequences of corporate participation in contentious public issues.

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