Summer 2026, Democracy Resilience Research Internship, Governance Studies ( Job ID 2026-3811)
Overview: p style="margin: auto 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Thinking about a career in public policy? Committed to improving the world we live in? Think Brookings - one of the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tanks! /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":240,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Interns spend approximately /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"1/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"2/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" weeks/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" working alongside /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"leading experts in government and academia from all over the world/span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)". Brookings also offers students the opportunity to intern in departments such as communications, human /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"resources/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" and central operations management. The mission of the Internship Program is to provide students with a pre-professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work experience related to their field of study or career interest. Students engage in career exploration and development as well as learn new skills./span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;" /pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Interns will have the opportunity to attend meetings, think tank events, professional development workshops, and public Brookings events. In addition, interns will have the opportunity to network with other interns throughout the Institution./span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;" /pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"This internship is an opportunity for undergraduate students in their junior or senior year and graduate students pursuing a masters degree with an interest in Global anti-corruption, democracy, and security efforts to apply principles and theory learned in the classroom in a professional environment. /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"PhD students are not eligible for internships; please visit /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"our/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spana href="https://www.brookings.edu/careers/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit;" rel="noopener"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #0000ff;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink"Careers page/span/span/aspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" for current open positions./spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"This internship pays an hourly rate of $/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"1/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"8.40/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)", and applicants must be willing to commit to a minimum number of hours per week (no less than 32/span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" hours per week, during regular business hours), with some flexibility around an academic course schedule./span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"To learn more about /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Brookings/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" research programs, click /span/spana href="https://www.brookings.edu/research-programs/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit;" rel="noopener"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #0000ff;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink"here./span/span/aspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"strongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-charstyle="Strong"Position Location/span/span/strongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)": This is a hybrid opportunity. Hybrid positions combine regular in-person presence at our Washington, DC, office with the /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"option/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" of remote work. /span/spanstrongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #ff0000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Remote work applicants may not work from the following states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington. /span/span/strongstrongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Please only apply if you can live and work in states other than those listed above for the duration of the internship/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"./span/span/strongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/p Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"strongDemocracy Resilience Research Internship/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"br /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"This position is full-time and requires a minimum of 32 hours per week; 40 hours is preferred. For this hybrid internship, please note that working at least three days in-office per week is required. The topic areas associated with this project include but are not limited to: Democracy resilience, anti-corruption, and security efforts, including legal and political accountability; open government, government ethics, and transparency, accountability, and participation (TAP) initiatives; and financial transparency, financial integrity, and financial inclusion initiatives./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Interns will have the opportunity to learn and/or strengthen a variety of research and analysis skills, such as conducting background research for and fact-checking articles, papers, and other publications (examples from past internship cycles include the a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/democracy-playbook-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"2025 Democracy Playbook/a and a href="https://www.brookings.edu/tags/monitoring-the-pillars-of-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"articles/a related to democracy resilience issues); drafting policy memos and fact sheets; assisting with data collection/entry; formatting citations, editing, and providing other general research support; building annotated bibliographies; compiling bios and developing topic syntheses/backgrounders in advance of stakeholder meetings; providing assistance with social media and event planning; developing questions for key informant interviews; preparing meeting transcripts and readouts; and assisting with other event logistics./span/p Qualifications: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"strongEducation/Knowledge/Skills:/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Undergraduate students in their junior or senior year as well as recent undergraduate and graduate students (i.e., individuals applying no more than one calendar year from their graduation year) working toward a degree in public policy, political science, history, philosophy, pre-law, economics, and/or a related field are encouraged to apply./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Our most successful interns have: /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"A demonstrated interest in democratic resilience; rule of law; anti-corruption; politics; transparency, accountability, and participation; and/or related governance issues; /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Excellent written and verbal communication skills; /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Strong writing, analytical, critical thinking, and internet-based research skills; /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Experience with fact-checking, data entry, citations, and editing; /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Familiarity with data collection, Excel, and/or database management; /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Strong attention to detail; /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Capacity to work well independently and with other team members; /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Eagerness to contribute to a fast-paced work environment and willingness to adapt; and /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Ability to manage competing priorities and evolving assignments./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"strongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-charstyle="Strong"Additional Information:/span/span/strongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont', 'Times New Roman_MSFontService', serif;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"This internship requires you tospan /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1p Overview: p style="margin: auto 0px 16px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Thinking about a career in public policy? Committed to improving the world we live in? Think Brookings - one of the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tanks! /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":240,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Interns spend approximately /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"1/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"2/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" weeks/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" working alongside /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"leading experts in government and academia from all over the world/span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)". Brookings also offers students the opportunity to intern in departments such as communications, human /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"resources/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" and central operations management. The mission of the Internship Program is to provide students with a pre-professional learning experience that offers meaningful, practical work experience related to their field of study or career interest. Students engage in career exploration and development as well as learn new skills./span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;" /pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Interns will have the opportunity to attend meetings, think tank events, professional development workshops, and public Brookings events. In addition, interns will have the opportunity to network with other interns throughout the Institution./span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;" /pp style="margin: auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"This internship is an opportunity for undergraduate students in their junior or senior year and graduate students pursuing a masters degree with an interest in Global anti-corruption, democracy, and security efforts to apply principles and theory learned in the classroom in a professional environment. /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"PhD students are not eligible for internships; please visit /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"our/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spana href="https://www.brookings.edu/careers/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit;" rel="noopener"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #0000ff;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink"Careers page/span/span/aspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" for current open positions./spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"This internship pays an hourly rate of $/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"1/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"8.40/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)", and applicants must be willing to commit to a minimum number of hours per week (no less than 32/span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" hours per week, during regular business hours), with some flexibility around an academic course schedule./span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"To learn more about /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Brookings/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" research programs, click /span/spana href="https://www.brookings.edu/research-programs/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: inherit;" rel="noopener"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #0000ff;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink"here./span/span/aspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" /span/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/pp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: windowtext;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"strongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-charstyle="Strong"Position Location/span/span/strongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)": This is a hybrid opportunity. Hybrid positions combine regular in-person presence at our Washington, DC, office with the /spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"option/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" of remote work. /span/spanstrongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #ff0000;" data-contrast="none"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Remote work applicants may not work from the following states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington. /span/span/strongstrongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto"span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"Please only apply if you can live and work in states other than those listed above for the duration of the internship/spanspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"./span/span/strongspan style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}" /span/span/p Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"strongDemocracy Resilience Research Internship/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"br /span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"This position is full-time and requires a minimum of 32 hours per week; 40 hours is preferred. For this hybrid internship, please note that working at least three days in-office per week is required. The topic areas associated with this project include but are not limited to: Democracy resilience, anti-corruption, and security efforts, including legal and political accountability; open government, government ethics, and transparency, accountability, and participation (TAP) initiatives; and financial transparency, financial integrity, and financial inclusion initiatives./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Interns will have the opportunity to learn and/or strengthen a variety of research and analysis skills, such as conducting background research for and fact-checking articles, papers, and other publications (examples from past internship cycles include the a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/democracy-playbook-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"2025 Democracy Playbook/a and a href="https://www.brookings.edu/tags/monitoring-the-pillars-of-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"articles/a related to democracy resilience issues); drafting policy memos and fact sheets; assisting with data collection/entry; formatting citations, editing, and providing other general research support; building annotated bibliographies; compiling bios and developing topic syntheses/backgrounders in advance of stakeholder meetings; providing assistance with social media and event planning; developing questions for key informant interviews; preparing meeting transcripts and readouts; and assisting with other event logistics./span/p Qualifications: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"strongEducation/Knowledge/Skills:/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Undergraduate students in their junior or senior year as well as recent undergraduate and graduate students (i.e., individuals applying no more than one calendar year from their graduation year) working toward a degree in public policy, political science, history, philosophy, pre-law, economics, and/or a related field are encouraged to apply./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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