In response to the recent anti-democratic patterns in the United States, the Ash Center hosted a panel of Harvard scholars to ...

At a conference earlier this month, Professor Danielle Allen argued that what we are seeing with DOGE is the real time implementation of an extreme ideological vision of the role that technology and a ...

Ranked choice voting (RCV) aims to expand voter choice and improve representation, but Nolan McCarty’s research warns it ...

Maya Sen argues that federal courts are unlikely to protect democracy from threats posed by Trump and Musk, as the judiciary’s power to check executive overreach is limited and increasingly challenged ...

Isabella Picón is a Venezuelan pro-democracy activist and organizer. She has an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and an MSc in Politics and Communications from the London School of ...

The Ash Center invites you to a book talk with Archon Fung and Sean Gray, co-editors of Empowering Affected Interests. They will be joined in discussion by Carol Gould, Emma Saunders-Hastings, and ...

Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the ...

In this webinar, panelists will draw upon lessons from around the world about how civil society groups can protect and promote democracy and the rule of law during episodes of democratic backsliding.

CAMBRIDGE, M.A. — Stephen Richer, former county recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona, joins the Ash Center of Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) as the newest ...