Feature
Democracy and the Informed Public 2026 Summer Reading List
Archon Fung, co-director of the Program on Democracy and the Informed Public, shares his top book recommendations for the summer.
Video
Content Creators, Election Administration and Voting: Can Social Media be used to Improve the Voter Information Environment
In this webinar, we explored how election officials can use social media’s broad reach to improve the information people receive about elections, voter registration and voting.
This discussion builds on the Ash Center paper “Building Capacity to Use Social Media: How Election Officials Can Leverage Content Creation to Provide Accurate Voter Information,” which offers frameworks for collaboration between election officials and content creators.
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Paper
Building Capacity to Use Social Media: How Election Officials Can Leverage Content Creation to Provide Accurate Voter Information
As traditional news declines, content creators play a growing role as information sources. This paper proposes frameworks for effective collaboration between creators and election officials and offers recommendations for officials to develop their own social media content.
Policy Brief
Paradise Revisited
Technology has enriched the lives of Americans with novel communication choices. It has also made it more difficult to reach everyone in emergencies. In a new policy brief, Mary W. Graham, senior fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, explores this new paradox of the digital transition.
Paper
Improving Election Administrator-News Media Relationships for Effective Election Coverage
This paper explores practical mechanisms for improving the relationship between election officials and news media to increase public confidence in the electoral process.