Taubman Building, Allison Dining Room, Harvard Kennedy School. Entrance through 15 Eliot St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard-ID holders are invited to join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies for the RFK Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture.
Public-sector unions are the hegemonic contemporary labor actor in terms of militancy and mobilization in both advanced and emergent economies. During the last fifteen years, public-sector unions and teachers (the largest state workers’ group in almost every country) have staged notorious strike waves in places as diverse as the US, Israel, Nordic countries...
Session six of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will examine why the West, which has done everything for the democratization of Eastern European countries, done so little for the democratization of the Arab world. Discussion topics will include:
The historical precedent of the First World War
The unfailing support to all Arab dictatorships during the last century
L-150, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School and Online
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Institute of Politics invites, and HKS Black Alumni Association invite you to a discussion with former West Virginia Secretary of State and current Institute of Politics Fellow Natalie Tennant, who will be joined by the Ash Center’s Tova Wang for a discussion on running an election in turbulent times. Tennant and Wang will discuss some of the biggest challenges to running a safe and transparent election process this year, such as new restrictive voting laws, low voter turnout, distrust of...
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Please join Michael Sandel and panelists Archon Fung, Jennifer Hochschild, and Brandon Terry for a discussion of Sandel’s forthcoming book, Democracy’s Discontent.
Michael Sandel's influential and widely debated book Democracy's Discontent, was first published in 1996. The market faith was eroding the common life. A rising sense of disempowerment was likely to provoke backlash, he wrote, from those who would “shore up borders, harden the distinction between insiders and outsiders, and promise a politics to ‘take back our culture and take back our country,’ to...
K354 (3rd Floor), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St.
Join Neil Malhotra, Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business for a talk on “Policy Outcomes and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Farmers’ Trade War Experiences.” This discussion is part of the American Politics Speaker Series sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for American Political Studies.
This will be an in-person event open to Harvard ID holders only. Lunch will be served.
Join us for a David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies event cosponsored by the Ash Center and the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
In 1964, a military coup d’Etat, supported by sectors of civil society, inaugurated two decades of dictatorship in Brazil. In 2022, a right-wing government works to undermine democratic institutions and find justification for another period of authoritarianism. There is much in common in the political rhetoric used to attack democracy in both periods: antidemocratic...
Session five of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will focus on the role of the economy in the victory the revolution (2010-2011) and its role in the return to power of the counter revolution (2014-2022). Discussion will also touch on topics related to the challenges of long political transitional stages and the disagreement over priorities between an elite obsessed with freedoms and a majority obsessed with the urgency of improving its standard of living. Participants will then...
S050 (Concourse level), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Join Christian Grose, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southern California for a talk on “Strengthening Democracy with Dollars? Increasing Funding for Elections Changes Administrators' Behavior and Increases Voter Turnout.” This discussion is part of the American Politics Speaker Series sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for American Political Studies.
This will be an in-person event open to Harvard ID holders only. Lunch will be served.
Session four of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will focus on the most specific obstacle to Arab democratization: Islamism. Discussion will include how has political Islam in its armed version as well as in its civil version been a gift from heaven to dictatorships. Students will also explore why democratic elections have favored Islamist parties, and why they have failed the test of power (the case of Tunisia and Morocco). Participants will then debate the question: “Now that...
JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA -- Registration Required
From the January 6th insurrection in Washington to the steady march of authoritarianism around the world, no corner of the globe has been safe from attempts to subvert democracy. What are the root causes of these forces, and how can we combat these threats?
Join us and the Institute of Politics in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, for a conversation with Professor Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, and Professor Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of Government and...