Historically, voter confidence has been tied to election outcomes. If the Republican candidate won the presidency, then Republican confidence rose while Democratic confidence fell, and vice versa (see ...

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

Archon Fung. Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, was recently asked to give ...

During the 2024 presidential campaign in Venezuela and the political process building up to it, a team of Venezuelan ...

It’s a term people love to throw around but can’t always define: conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest pervade public ...

For example, activists can ask their base several questions, collect responses, and then use AI to categorize and prioritize ...

Around the world, democratically elected leaders are subverting the very institutions that brought them to power, gradually ...

The Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development’s Honoring Nations program is pleased to announce the selection ...

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

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 ...

People power movements are those in which large segments of society engage in collective action to demand greater political freedom and democracy. In other words, people power is about people. It ...