The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-government.

This policy primer from the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation is intended to introduce the ideas and conversations around reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and how it could ...

The Equal Democracy Project and Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School and the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School invite you to a lunch discussion with Rick Schaffer (Board Chair) and Paul ...

Marcus Board Jr., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University in Washington D.C. and author of Invisible Weapons (Oxford 2022). His research engages social movements, ...

You’re invited to join Katherine Levine Einstein, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University, for an American Politics Speaker Series discussion sponsored by the Ash Center for ...

Join the next GETTING-Plurality Research Workshop with Sheila Jasanoff as she discusses her recent paper “Sovereigns and Subjects in the Digital Age.” Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of ...

Surveys show that trust in one another and key institutions, such as government, media, and the courts, has reached historic lows in the U.S. At the same time, hyper-partisan polarization has ...

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele was recently re-elected with more than 80% of the vote. While Bukele is credited with bringing the country’s crime rate to historic lows, he has also adopted ...

Ian Bassin, Lawrence Lessig, and Matt Seligman discuss possible efforts to subvert the 2024 presidential election and how we can stop them. Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, ...

For the first time in its 60-year history, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — often referred to as food ...

With less than one week to November 5 and voters heading to the ballot box early, this webinar will dig into questions about how the Associated Press conducts their election counting, how the count ...

In this era of increasing polarization, even enemies can negotiate. Indeed for the health of the country political adversaries must learn to negotiate well. Learning the fundamentals of successful ...