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

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

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 and Emma Saunders-Hastings, ...

Gharbi, as he discusses his recent book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite (Princeton University Press, October 2024).

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 ...

The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements. The AI and Democracy Movements Project at the Nonviolent ...

Democracy movements are struggling to challenge autocratic governments, partly due to slower AI adoption, and this report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the issue with key recommendations. In ...

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 ...

In this webinar, panelists drew 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. In ...

Curious about the role of the Electoral College? The Electoral College is viewed as a democratic anachronism in modern-day America, yet it has persisted for over two centuries despite repeated ...