With a population of 51 million people, South Korea is reporting just over 30,000 cases of COVID-19, making it a major success story in the fight against the pandemic. Yong-Kyun Kim MC/MPA '08, the director-general of South Korea’s National Disaster and Safety Control Center, will join Arnold Howitt, faculty co-director of the HKS Program on Crisis Leadership (PCL), to discuss the country’s overall response to COVID-19, its successes, and the challenges it has encountered.
Join the Ash Center and Carr Center for Human Rights for the launch of Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by HKS Assistant Professor Yanilda María González. Authoritarian Police in Democracy examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the '...
Please join the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative’s annual Open House on Monday, September 21 at 5:30pm to hear about ways for students to work with cities, mayors, and the Initiative. We will be discussing student fellowships, summer associates, and field lab courses where students gain hands-on experience with city governments; we will cover research assistant roles where students carry out important work with Initiative projects, city leaders, or investigative research; and we will talk about the possibility of conducting your PAE project with us.
Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Ground Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
Join us for a discussion with Kyle Jaros, author of China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development; Associate Professor in the Political Economy of China, University of Oxford. Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School, will serve as a respondent. Ash Center Director Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.
This is a brown bag lunch event, refreshments will not be...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us for a discussion with Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, author of Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us and Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for a discussion with Yao Li, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center, author of Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests. Elizabeth Plantan, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center, will serve as a respondent. Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, HKS, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us for a book talk with Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy authorsMichael Neblo, Ohio State University; and David Lazer, Northeastern University. Jill Lepore, Harvard University, will serve as a respondent. Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.