Josh Cortez graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School as an Ash Center fellow in May 2025. But his journey to the Kennedy ...

The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation develops the policy innovations needed to achieve healthy democracy in the 21st century. Healthy democracy today must deliver responsive representation and ...

Across the political spectrum, a contest is underway over the future of political economy. From “inclusive abundance” and ...

The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC), a joint project of Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut, collects publicly available data on political crowds reported in the United States, ...

Additional Resource Nov 20, 2024 Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate As a part of the Allen Lab’s Political Economy of AI Essay Collection, David Gray Widder and Mar Hicks draw on the ...

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Jon is author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and co-founder of the New Citizen Project, a book and company committed to shifting the dominant story of the individual in ...

Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed ...

Commentary Oct 29, 2024 The Electoral College and Our Broken Presidential Election System Roughly 80 percent of the population who do not live in “swing states” lack a clear notion of what they “need ...

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the ...

Feature Aug 6, 2024 Political Violence in America: Causes, Consequences, and Countermeasures In the wake of this most recent incident, the Ash Center convened a panel of experts to discuss Americans’ ...

Harvard’s hub for research and teaching on democracy The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic ...