Commentary
The Electoral College and Our Broken Presidential Election System
Roughly 80 percent of the population who do not live in “swing states” lack a clear notion of what they “need to do” to actively support their candidates.
Video
Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century
The Ash Center and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) hosted a discussion of Our Common Purpose, a report issued by the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.
Issues
Q+A
Will Mobile Voting Defeat Gerrymandering and Increase Participation?
Additional Resource
Milestone or Misstep? Corruption, Development, and Democracy After Brazil’s Lava Jato Probe
This case explores Brazil’s Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato in Portuguese), the largest public corruption investigation in history, which led to indictments and convictions of some 359 business executives, government officials, and political leaders from the ruling elite in Brazil.
