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

Terms of Engagement – ICE Expansion, Raids, Protests, and Democracy From rank-choice voting to reconciliation, American democracy is headline news. Let’s talk about it.

Harvard students are invited to join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for an open house reception to celebrate the start of the fall semester.

At a recent Ash Center panel, experts and AI developers discuss how AI’s influence on politics has evolved over the years. They examine the new tools available to politicians, the role of humans in AI ...

Democracy movements are struggling to challenge autocratic governments, partly due to the changing technology landscape. This report by Erica Chenoweth summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the ...

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, ...

Democratically elected leaders around the world are increasingly transforming into autocrats by systematically undermining the institutions that enabled their rise to power. After achieving dominance ...

Election 2024: Appreciating The Front-Line Workers of Democracy As the dust settles from the U.S. presidential election, the American public can celebrate that the election process was largely ...

Additional Resource Nov 20, 2024 Medicare Advantage as Asset Management: The Pretense of Care Under Logics of Extraction As a part of the Allen Lab’s Political Economy of AI Essay Collection, Ajeet ...

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

Feature Oct 23, 2024 Six Takeaways from the 2024 Truth and Transformation Conference Six seasoned speakers offered practical strategies for confronting the anti-DEI movement at the sixth annual ...