Policy Brief
A new policy brief by Jon Alexander, Non-resident Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, argues for the development of a Department of Citizen Empowerment (DOCE) at all levels of government around the world.
In a new policy brief, Jon Alexander, Non-resident Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, proposes creating a Department of Citizen Empowerment at every level of government with the goal of transforming public institutions from service providers into facilitators of collective intelligence and civic participation.
Drawing comparisons with the Department of Government Efficiency, the report argues that governments must fundamentally rethink their role—not as institutions delivering outcomes to citizens, but institutions that empower citizens to achieve those outcomes themselves.
Commentary
Allen Lab Fellow Hillary Lehr convened a Voter Experience Summit at Harvard’s Ash Center in March, bringing together 25 cross-sector experts to rigorously map the voter journey. This essay explores how that collaborative process could lay the groundwork for new interventions to understand and improve the experience of voting for all.
Additional Resource
After Neoliberalism: From Left to Right brought together hundreds of leading economists, political scientists, journalists, writers and thinkers from across the political spectrum to explore and debate emerging visions for the future of the political economy.
Panel videos below.
Additional Resource
Watch Roadtrip Nation’s Living Civics documentary and hear from leading universal civic learning experts on the power of narrative for civic engagement.
