Join us for a conversation with Gwen Camp MC/MPA 2019 and Mike Miesen MPP 2019 about the Harvard Votes Challenge, GOTV, and understanding why it can be so hard to turn voters out to the polls. Teresa Acuña, Associate Director of Democratic Governance Programs at Ash will moderate.
Lunch, as always, will be served.
The Ash Community Speaker Series features discussions with students, faculty, fellows, and alumni whose research or other academic work is supported by the Ash Center. The series is a forum to...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
Democracy appears to be in retreat, not just in fragile states, but also in the West, where we have long taken such concepts as the rule of law and a free and independent press for granted. Join M. Steven Fish, University of California, Berkeley, for a discussion on how can we not only understand this anti-democratic surge, but learn how democracy advocates can surmount this growing threat. Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at HKS will moderate.... Read more about Democracy in a Suddenly Hard Place: Confronting the Authoritarian Challenge in America
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
Join Sheri Berman, Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, for a discussion analyzing various explanations for growing dissatisfaction with liberal democracy and rising populism in the West. The talk will cover some of the main causes put forward by scholars and pundits, assess the evidence for these various causes, and suggest some ways the research agenda and our understandings of these crucial phenomena can move forward.... Read more about Democracy in Hard Places Seminar: How to Think About Democratic Dissatisfaction and Populism in the West
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
The conventional wisdom is that democracy emerges from the ashes of a collapsed authoritarian regime. In other words, democratic prospects look most enticing when dictatorships become weak, unstable or fall. Counterintuitively, democracy in Asia has tended to emerge when authoritarian regimes have been relatively strong. We call this democracy-through-strength, and illuminate this model through historical examples in Taiwan, Korea and Indonesia, and assess the prospects of democracy in authoritarian stalwarts like China.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at Harvard Kennedy School; Mariana Batista, Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco in the Department of Political Science; and Fernando Bizzarro, Graduate Student at Harvard University, Government Department; for a discussion about the upcoming October elections in Brazil.
Lunch will be served.
The Ash Community Speaker Series features discussions with students, faculty, fellows...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join the Ash Center and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government for a discussion with Amir Levi, Former Director of Budgets, Israel's Ministry of Finance; and Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government. Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join Kathleen Collins, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Political Science, in discussion. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, will moderate.