Will This Election Pick the Next President: Election Break Down and What to...
The upcoming US election is unlike any in recent memory. Many are afraid that this most basic process of Americans voting to select their next President may break down. In this discussion, we’ll...
View ArticleBook Talk -- Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Challenges for Latin America...
Join the Ash Center and Carr Center for Human Rights for the launch of Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by HKS Assistant Professor Yanilda María González....
View ArticleReckoning with Election 2020: Race, Violence, & the Power of New Voters
Election 2020 proved to be historic in terms of the numbers of voters that were mobilized to the polls. The Election also made clear that there would be no nationwide repudiation of Trumpism. Join the...
View ArticleReforming Democratic Institutions and Practices
Democracy urgently needs repair. Constructive participation in political systems has been eroding and intense political conflict growing. Civil dialogue across political divides and confidence in the...
View ArticleVoting in the Extraordinary 2020 Elections: What Worked for Voters, What Didn’t?
While it is way too early for a ‘retrospective’ given just how extraordinary this year’s election has been, we do now know a lot about the voting processes up to and including Election Day. The 2020...
View ArticleFulfilling the Promise of a Treaty: Native Americans Claiming their Rights in...
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th at 6pm ET in observance and celebration of Native American/Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month, when the Institute of Politics and Ash Center for Democratic Governance...
View ArticleWhat made South Korea’s COVID-19 response so successful?
With a population of 51 million people, South Korea is reporting just over 30,000 cases of COVID-19, making it a major success story in the fight against the pandemic. Yong-Kyun Kim MC/MPA '08, the...
View ArticleLooking Forward: The Paths and Prospects for Democracy Reform
As the smoke (slowly) clears from the 2020 elections, advocates for full participation and democracy reform are charting a path forward. In Congress and in state legislatures, the lessons of 2020 and...
View ArticleGeorgia on Our Minds: Voter Engagement and Voter Protection in the Senate...
At this moment, the attention of the country is sharply focused on the state of Georgia. Just two months after a breathtakingly narrow election, one in which the mechanisms of democracy and the...
View Article2020 Truth and Transformation Conference
On October 2, 2020 The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project hosted the second annual Truth and Transformation convening on-line. Our intent this year was to use the convening to...
View ArticleNew research on the impacts of restrictions on the applicability of federal...
Cambridge, MA – A team of researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School today released a research report documenting the costs to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine—Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and...
View ArticleIARA Project Receives Grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project, a research project working on long-term solutions to achieving racial equity in organizations at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for...
View ArticleResearch Reveals Path to Effective Antiracist Change in American Healthcare
Cambridge, MA—In 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 and rising wave of racial justice demonstrations moved many organizations, including those in healthcare, to commit to antiracist change. These public...
View ArticleHarvard Kennedy School to Expand Work with Native Nations
Recent gifts will significantly expand the impact of the Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development.
View Article2023 All-Stars Awards in American Indian Tribal Governance Honors Nine Programs
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – Nine tribal governance programs have been selected by the Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development’s Honoring Nations program as 2023 All-Stars from...
View ArticleNew analysis from Harvard Kennedy School researchers details major sources of...
Cambridge, MA– Today the China Philanthropy Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Rajawali Institute Foundation for Asia released its latest analysis of philanthropic trends in China. In China’s Most...
View ArticleIn new discussion paper, Stephen Goldsmith and Ryan Streeter lay out a case...
Cambridge, MA – In a recently published discussion paper from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, Stephen Goldsmith and Ryan Streeter propose a new...
View ArticleNew book from Tony Saich examines evolution of Hukou, China’s household...
Cambridge, MA— The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia is pleased to announce the publication of Institutional Change and Adaptive Efficiency: A Study of China's Hukou System Evolution(World...
View ArticleNew paper from Ash Center Fellow and former Labor Department official David...
Cambridge, MA – Ina new policy brief published by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, David Weil, a senior fellow at the Ash Center and a former Labor Department official in the...
View ArticleNew research outlines novel partisan solution to partisan gerrymandering
Cambridge, MA– In a new paper in Political Analysis, Ben Schneer, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, alongside co-authors Maxwell Palmer, Associate Professor, Boston...
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