Join Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, and Tova Wang, Ash Center Democracy Fellow, for the fourth session of a five-part study group which will examine various aspects of the burgeoning democracy reform movement sweeping through states across the country. Throughout the semester, leading advocates, organizers and scholars on voting rights, social movements, and structural election reform will share their unique experiences and perspectives. The group will discuss democracy reform campaigns, lessons learned, and...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join us for a discussion with Ford Foundation Mason Fellows Uche Pedroand Beth Fukumoto about how digital technology and innovative practices can help raise the voices of citizens and political candidates. ...
In recent years, Buenos Aires City Government has set out to become a more inclusive and sustainable city, with a priority of serving the city's most vulnerable populations. The Housing Authority of the City of Buenos Aires has designed an innovative Socio-Urban Integration Plan which makes focus in the process by seeking to involve the relevant actors in the decision making of the slum upgrading intervention.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
From Hong Kong to Venezuela, citizens are taking to the streets and demanding respect for democratic values in authoritarian states. Join Yascha Mounk, Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow, for a conversation on what this means for the future of democracy. Introduction by Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, HKS.
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354
Despite a lull after the Soviet collapse, grassroots activism in Russia is growing. The protests for free elections that swept across Russia this summer may have captured international headlines, but many other grassroots groups have been organizing over the last decade. What types of civic movements exist in today’s Russia? What risks do activists face? How do they interact with the state or state-protected interest groups? Finally, what role could grassroots groups play in democratizing Russia? Yevgeniya Chirikova sheds light on these questions through her experience as an...
This seminar, hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government's weekly Business & Government and Ash Center, will be given by William Overholt, M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow and former President, Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong.
Join Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Professor of Law at Stetson University for a discussion of her newest book, Political Brands, an examination of the legal framework for the use of commercial branding and advertising techniques in presidential political campaigns. This talk will be moderated by Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center.