Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
You're invited to a discussion with Kathryn Perera, former Ash Center Democracy Fellow, Deputy Director in the English National Health Service, and a current Fellow of Practice in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Psychology of Change program; and Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, Institute for Healthcare Improvement President Emeritus and Senior Fellow. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.... Read more about Ash Community Speaker Series -- Leadership, Organizing, and Innovation: Making Health Care Work
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us for a conversation with Ash Center Democracy Visiting Fellow of Practice Laura Quinn, Catalist CEO and co-founder, who will provide an overview and insight into the data from the 2018 midterm elections. Bring your questions about demographic and geographic trends and what the midterms portend for 2020 and beyond. Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, Harvard Kennedy School, 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.
L-166, the IOP Conference Room, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Join Senior Visiting Fellow and former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley for a discussion on the results of the 2018 gubernatorial elections from across the country and what trends we might see in 2020. A pizza dinner will be provided. This discussion is cosponsored by the Taubman Center for State and Local Politics, the Institute of Politics, and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Often civil society is seen as one component in a zero-sum game that also includes the state and market. It is assumed that a large welfare state with comprehensive public services, like those in Scandinavia, will lead to a smaller voluntary sector and diminishing civic engagement. However, the volunteer levels (traditional as well as digital forms), informal help, and monetary donations are high in Scandinavian countries. Civic Engagement in Scandinavia....
Ash Center, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Room 226
Join Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, for the fifth session of a study group titled, "Elections 2018 Through the Practitioner’s Lens."
Elections 2018 Through the Practitioner’s Lens
The 2018 elections will not just be a question of who wins and who loses; they will be a stress test of America’s democratic processes. Issues of election safety, voting access, the new wild west of campaign finance and redistricting will have major impact for the future. This Study Group will feature experienced practitioners--...