Ash Center Conference Room, #226, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N
What happens to the legitimacy of the state after major political corruption scandals? Brazil’s general elections in October raises important questions about democratic accountability and the future of anticorruption reforms. Session five will discuss these questions in the context of Brazil’s reform process, following one of the largest anticorruption investigations in history, Lava Jato, as well as in other countries where recent corruption scandals have threatened the survival of chief executives.
Repeats every week every Friday until Fri May 19 2023 .
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Ash Center Conference Room, #226, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N
Harvard community members and other Boston-area students and scholars are invited to join us during the fall semester every week for a free, Indonesian language class, starting Friday, September 9 and ending Friday, May 19, 2023.
Course Description
This class is not for credit and open to all Harvard students, faculty, fellows, and staff members as well as other Boston-area students and scholars. The lessons will be conducted by ...
Session seven of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will examine how the very mechanisms of democracy were used to assassinate democracy in Tunisia during the democratic transition (2011-2014). Participants will then debate the questions: “Is the people a populist concept? Do the people have a will that only elections can express? Can we defend democratic rules and institutions from being hijacked by corrupt media and political parties without falling into some form of...
Ash Center Conference Room, #226, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N
Most analyses of the causes and means of eradicating corruption boil down to one of two factors: the strength of institutions or political will. These factors are, however, inextricably linked. Those who have the will to address corruption can make headway only to the extent that they wield sufficient authority to tackle the problem. But those who have authority---i.e., who hold political power---typically are best positioned to benefit from corruption. Because no one can fully commit to...
Ash Center Conference Room, #226, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N
Harvard community members and other Boston-area students and scholars are invited to join us during the fall semester every week for a free, Indonesian language class, starting Friday, September 9 and ending Friday, May 19, 2023.
Course Description
This class is not for credit and open to all Harvard students, faculty, fellows, and staff members as well as other Boston-area students and scholars. The lessons will be conducted by ...
Join David Cortez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame for a talk on "Broken Mirrors: Latino, La Migra, and the Conflict of Being Both." 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.
Please note: The location for this talk has changed and will now be held in Rubenstein 414 AB.
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...
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government is sponsoring a hybrid seminar with Katrina Northrop, staff writer at The Wire China. Lunch will be served for those joining us in...
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